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Tag: Crime

Crime stories are morality plays with better pacing. This tag collects reviews and essays on crime in film and fiction: heists, investigations, and the genre’s permanent question of what rules cost.

1960s

Hotel (1967) Review

September 22, 2026

Rod Taylor runs a grand old New Orleans hotel through one week of takeover threats, a jewel thief and a hidden hit-and-run in this glossy adaptation of Arthur Hailey's novel. It's an 8.5.

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The Greatest Courtroom Dramas

September 11, 2026

Every courtroom drama reviewed on this site, ranked. Wilder, Preminger, Lumet's descendants, a Scopes trial fictionalised, and a comedy that gets the evidentiary procedure right.

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The Greatest Vigilante Films

September 11, 2026

Every vigilante and revenge film reviewed on this site, ranked. Bronson across five films and twenty years, Seagal in his early-nineties peak, the Punisher three separate times, and a genre that is always arguing with itself about whether it approves.

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The Greatest Film Noir

September 11, 2026

Every film noir reviewed on this site, ranked. Huston, Wilder, Reed, Polanski and Hanson, plus the neo-noir and science fiction descendants that kept the form alive after the studios abandoned it.

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Stripped to Kill (1987) Review

September 11, 2026

Stripped to Kill (1987) rates 4 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Katt Shea's first film as director, made for Concorde under a brief requiring a fixed number of dance sequences, and she used the constraint to build something…

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