A crime film is a type of film focusing on the lives of criminals. The stylistic approach ranges from grittily realistic portrayals of real-life criminal figures (crime drama) to the far-fetched evil doings of imaginary arch-villains (master criminal films.) Criminal acts are almost always glorified in these movies.
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What makes a man a man? That simple but weighty question provides a great deal of the subtext in Michael R. Roskam's film Bullhead (aka Rundskop). On the surface, it's a crime thriller set against the cattle-farming … More
~ Mark Deming
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Crime dramas this good don't come around very often -- or at least, they didn't until William Monahan got in the game. Having penned the script for 2006's The Departed, Monahan has followed up his success on that movie … More
~ Cammila Albertson
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