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 Harlem ...

For as much heat as they take, there’s often nothing quite like watching a great gangster movie. Gangsters are among the most compelling characters in America in part because they seem to be so ...

One of Russell Crowe’s most iconic movies that saw him team up with a two-time Oscar-winning star just got the streaming update that fans have been dreading. 18 years ago, Crowe starred alongside ...

The legacy of heroin kingpin Frank Lucas, whose story was dramatized in the 2007 narrative feature American Gangster, is the focus of a forthcoming documentary film. The film features interviews with ...

Denzel Washington is getting some major Oscar buzz thanks to his performance in Gladiator 2, but long before the legacy sequel, he teamed up with Ridley Scott for a crime thriller with a star from the ...

One Denzel Washington movie where he gives arguably his best performance to not earn an Oscar nomination is a smash hit on the biggest streaming service in the world. American Gangster, which ...

The ruling cliché in writing about crime bosses — “the gangster as tragic hero” — was coined in 1948 by Robert Warshow, an extremely intelligent cultural critic, whose premature passing in 1955 robbed ...

In Ridley Scott’s American Gangster, Denzel Washington plays the title character, North Carolina-born Frank Lucas, a Harlem drug kingpin who, back during the Vietnam War, became both ghoulishly ...