I love the noir formula, but about halfway through a noir I can admit to myself if it's a bit crummy. It took me a while to get there with 1947's Born to Kill, but the last 40% of the film slowly circled the drain and petered out, which was too damn bad.
In this underrated crime thriller Ray Milland plays George Stroud, a hardworking magazine editor who after seven hard years laboring under media mogul Earl Janoth (Charles Laughton) is starting to feel a…
An incredibly understated, border-town noir film that is surprisingly compelling despite serious drawbacks. In its favor: breathtaking cinematography, a perfectly spare score, beautiful production design, genuinely creepy crime - and…
My favorite Michael Mann film - so far. James Caan stars as Frank - a brisk, extremely cloistered high-end jewel thief who rather suddenly stumbles on an idea for a better life.…