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Gangster Squad

2013

Ruben Fleischer

Josh Brolin, Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone ...

5.9

23,551

Film noir Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and--if he has his way--every wire bet placed west of Chicago. And he does it all with the protection of not only his own paid goons, but also the police and the politicians who are under his control. It's enough to intimidate even the bravest, street-hardened ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Claudia Puig USA Today	"A bullet-riddled bloodbath with an all-star cast, Gangster Squad is a lurid and ludicrous Mob thriller that glorifies a gangland lifestyle (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"It offers the marginal pleasure of an all-star cast slumming their way through a thicket of routine plotting, almost laughable dialogue and the constant blaze of tommy guns (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Ann Hornaday The Washington Post	"Slick, sick, self-consciously stylish and defiantly shallow, Gangster Squad is one of those movies you can't talk about without invoking other (often better) movies (...) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"This lurid concoction superficially gets by thanks to a strong cast and jazzy period detail, but its cartoonish contrivances fail to convince"	NEU
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"'Gangster Squad' [is] a mob epic that flushes a classy cast down the sinkhole of creative bankruptcy (...) Rating: ★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Philip French The Guardian	"There are a few good lines here and there (...) But the story has little connection to reality."	NEU
United Kingdom	Tim Robey Telegraph	"The director doesn’t know how to harness what he’s got (...) The trouble is how adolescent it all feels. The sets are squeaky-clean, the violence garish and digital (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Nick De Semlyen Empire	"While it’s not lacking in visual razzle-dazzle or blood, story-wise it rarely manages to shock or excite (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU

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