• Noir/Hardboiled

    Thirty Years Later, Is Goodfellas The Greatest Mob Movie Ever Made?

    A demented, predatory nihilism runs through Martin Scorsese's 1990 mob classic, and audiences are still cheering for it. Why?

    December 11, 2020  By Andy McCarthy
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    The Politically Engaged, Wildly Entertaining Novels of Paco Ignacio Taibo II

    He's one of the world's most popular crime writers. And his critiques of systemic corruption are as incisive as ever.

    December 11, 2020  By Gabino Iglesias
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    The Good Thief: The Best Heist Movie You’ve (Probably) Never Seen

    It's the South of France and Nick Nolte is broke and hooked on heroin, but somehow this is the uplifting noir we need this year.

    December 10, 2020  By Nick Kolakowski
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    The Long, Dark Legacy of William Hjortsberg's Supernatural Neo-Noirs

    Revisiting the 'Angel' novels and their occult obsessions

    December 9, 2020  By Andrew Nette
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    The Vigilantes of the Oppressed

    Move over, Batman: there's a new wave of justice-seekers in town.

    December 9, 2020  By Molly Odintz
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    We Need More Dark Stories with Hopeful Endings

    "To endure page after page of never-ending pain and sorrow and to culminate in the same morass of tragedy would only be nihilism."

    December 9, 2020  By Les Edgerton
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    Watch a Short, Delightfully Awkward Interview with Graham Greene

    All writer interviews should take place in international waters.

    December 7, 2020  By Dwyer Murphy
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    The Meticulous Noir of David Fincher

    Exploring the movies that have fed the worldview of a legendarily exacting director who inspires, and is inspired by obsession.

    December 4, 2020  By Zach Vasquez
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    Jean-Patrick Manchette: Inside the Decades-Long Effort to Bring a Master of French Crime Fiction to American Readers

    Manchette's translator reflects on the legacy of an author who revolutionized French noir (twice).

    December 4, 2020  By Donald Nicholson-Smith
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    Joan Harrison: Hollywood Producer, and the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock

    She answered an ad for a secretary. She became Hitchcock's trusted screenwriter and a major power player in Hollywood.

    December 2, 2020  By Christina Lane
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