Baby Driver (2017) Review
Edgar Wright's music-driven heist masterpiece. Seen it more than five times.
2010sEdgar Wright's music-driven heist masterpiece. Seen it more than five times.
2020sGuy Ritchie's late-career crime action masterpiece. Jason Statham's career-defining controlled-rage performance.
2010sBen Affleck's Charlestown Boston heist film. Jeremy Renner Oscar-nominated.
2000sRoger Donaldson's heist film based on the 1971 Lloyds Bank Baker Street robbery. Jason Statham outside his action register.
1990sGuy Ritchie's directorial debut. Launched Jason Statham and Vinnie Jones.
1990sScorsese's Las Vegas mob masterpiece. De Niro, Pesci, Sharon Stone Oscar-nominated.
1970sTwo adaptations of Jim Thompson's novel. 1972 Peckinpah with Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw foundational.
1990sJackson, John McTiernan returns to direct, Jeremy Irons as Hans Gruber's brother. It is the best Die Hard sequel and the closest the franchise ever came to matching the original.
2000sDavid Mamet wrote and directed. Heist is the writer-director showcase that closes out 2001's heist cinema trifecta.
CrimeA career criminal and a veteran patrolman collide on a desert highway, and what is in the trunk forces both to decide who they are. A 146-page thriller.
Capital PunishmentTwenty prison films covering every variation of the genre, from Shawshank's hope as active resistance to Cool Hand Luke's refusal unto death to A Prophet's criminal education. What every prison film is always about: a person confronting a system with…
CrimeTwenty-two films and TV episodes that use the serial killer as a lens for examining the world instead of as spectacle, from Silence of the Lambs to Mindhunter. What separates the serious from the exploitative, and what fiction writers can…
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