Prisoners
Even its greatest defender has to admit that, frankly, the plot of the prisoner is clapping - Jack Gyllenhaal plays a role called detective rocky, a page turning mess, a funny scene involving boxes of snakes, and the villain's motivation is "war against God". But, my God, isn't it very interesting and very good, raising the DTV ticket price in the hands of a few people to the artistic level. Dennis Villeneuve's thriller tells the consequences of the kidnapping of two children in rural Pennsylvania. Rocky (Gyllenhaal) tries to find the perpetrator, while a sad father (Hugh Jackman, in his best turn) seeks answers outside the law. Although the twists and turns are ridiculous, they undeniably pull you forward, from Roger Deakins' photography to Johann Johanson's soundtrack to the pleasant moral chaos in Aaron guzikowski's script. Every element is here as much as you can hope in this crime movie.
American Hustle
There are many reasons to thank the "American scam", but one of them is that it has proved so successful. This is almost contrary to the high concept of franchise, The crime movie tried to deal with its old elevator sales and became "well, so fat Christian Bale is a liar. He is with Amy Adams, but also with Jennifer Lawrence, as well as the Mafia and Jeremy Renner as a politician and very radical Bradley Cooper." , is it the 1970s?. According to the abscam scandal in real life, David O. Russell perfectly shows the loose and freewheeling style he developed in previous crime movie, and deploys it in a fascinating and very interesting story. His occasional carelessness is exactly the same as the messy narrative it tells. Russell's next film "joy" made him overdo the feeling of chaos, but here, it's like Altman never drank enough coke to make the great joy of the 1970s.
Gangs Of Wasseypur
Outside the United States, we think of many other countries with a long tradition of crime movies, from France and Italy to South Korea and Japan. India is not traditionally one of them, but the recent two parts, the five hour epic "wasipur Gang" may have changed this. Anurag Kashyap's ten-year story is fashionable and dynamic, which is easier to get started than most Western audiences. It tells the story of gangs' struggle to control this famous mining town from 1940s to 1990s. Of course, you can find the influence (mainly the "Godfather"), but in this new environment, they feel very exciting, and Kashyap maintains an indomitable rhythm in a way that shames most movie drivers.A classical crime movie.
Romanzo Criminale
Another epic that heralds the return of AAA TV miniseries (in fact, it has also become an Italian TV Series), Michele Placido's two-and-a-half-hour crime photo was shot in Banda della magliana, a newly rich organized criminal group established in Rome in the 1970s, And continue to contact everyone from Cosa Nostra to masons and fascist terrorists. If there is, it may benefit from more time (director's editing version, nearly three hours) better, it tries to cover so many places), and it is covered up by "Gomorra" at the same time, but it is still a fashionable and exciting style, influenced by Scorsese (the score is great), but it works best when it connects anti heroes with Italian politics at that time.
A Bittersweet Life
He has not received the kind of critical flattery that his compatriots Park Zanyu and Feng Junhao naturally received like park Zanyu and Feng Junhao - he is more like a straightforward genre figure to some extent. Although last year's "shadow age" won a well deserved good review - Jin Zhiyun is still a talented filmmaker, and "bittersweet life" is the clearest One of the bloodiest demonstrations. An action thriller close to opera in some places, it sees Li Bingxian playing a gangster who falls in love with the boss's mistress Xi Xiu (Shen miner), a classic black premise, but it feels very fresh here, which is largely due to the deep romanticism embodied by Li. This is not to say that it has no performance in action: Kim is better than 99.9% of filmmakers, and every violence here is perfectly executed. A romantic crime movie.
Killing Them Softly
Those who hope to get another lazy and lyrical American mythology and myth piercing from Andrew Dominik's follow-up work of "Coward Robert Ford assassinates Jesse James" will undoubtedly be a little disappointed. Kill them gently (adapted from George v. Higgins' the Cogan deal) is a very different film: bashing the head of American capitalism with the thick end of a billiard pole. It tells the story of two drug addicts (Ben Mendelssohn and Scott McNally playing breakthrough roles) after robbing a gang related billiards game in New Orleans. It tracks all kinds of cold and interesting tangents, but never tries anything close to Tarantino style coolness: This is a dirty, dangerous, cruel world, crime does pay the price, but at the cost of the decaying soul of the United States of America.
