The biographical crime film is based on the life of the Irish-American gangster Danny Greene and tells the true story of ...

The biographical crime film is based on the true story of the rise and fall of the Irish-American gangster Danny Greene ...

Such films as “The Godfather” and “Serpico” contain iconic scenes and sequences. “American Gangster” contributes little. It’s workmanlike and engrossing, but what sticks in the mind ...

As the American film industry matured in the early 20th century, so too did organized crime. While violent gangs and criminal ...

You'd expect a movie with that kind of pedigree to be nothing short of an instant classic. Alas, "American Gangster" fails to live up to its promise. And, even more damagingly, almost everyone ...

He isn’t bad here, but he isn’t great. And neither is “American Gangster.” The movie opens with a scene that feels as if it has been tacked on to demonstrate Lucas’ ruthlessness ...

The movie is directed by Ridley Scott ... Denzel Washington starred in American Gangster at 53 years old. He played the leading drug lord, Frank Lucas, and did so with the highest combination ...

NEW YORK – A group of retired federal drug enforcement agents sued NBC Universal on Wednesday, saying the movie "American Gangster" falsely portrayed them as villains in the story of a Harlem ...

I have some thoughts as to why it remains a really enduring genre. From its beginnings, the gangster film is an American cinematic invention. Other national cinemas have adopted it and riffed on it, ...

the film biz had its first honey of a frame in nearly two months. “American Gangster” grossed an estimated $46.3 million from 3,054 locations, according to Rentrak, outpacing expectations and ...

American Gangster is a movie with obvious gravitas and a familiar argument: Organized crime is outsider capitalism. As archetypal as its title, Ridley Scott's would-be epic aspires to enshrine ...

But what might be the greatest gangster movies ever made? As the American film industry matured in the early 20th century, so too did organized crime. While violent gangs and criminal outlaws are ...