Crime films 565 films

Every crime film we have reviewed that is out now, with the score and where it is streaming. How we rate.

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Crime films are about wanting what you should not have, and about the company you keep to get it. The bad ones make the criminals glamorous and stop there. The good ones make them good company and then, slowly, let us see what that company costs, without a speech about it. That is what we are scoring: does the film know its people are appalling, and does it keep us at the table anyway? Our shelf leans towards the 1990s, and towards Scorsese and Soderbergh, who both make the getting look easy and the keeping look hard.

Start with M (94), where Fritz Lang makes a child murderer pitiable without letting him off; GoodFellas (93), which we would recommend to almost anyone who can stand the people; and Chinatown (93), a detective story for readers who usually avoid them. After those, try Taxi Driver, which makes one lonely man frightening to sit beside, or Some Like It Hot, where the gangsters keep interrupting a farce.

565 films out now matching your filters, newest release first.Scores are Fi1m scores; critics’ and audience scores are on each page.