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Millers Crossing
Tom Reagan is the laconic anti-hero of this amoral tale which is also, paradoxically, a look at morals within the criminal underworld of the 1930s. Two rival gangs vie for control of a city where the police are pawns, and the periodic busts of illicit drinking establishments are no more than a way for one gang to get back at the other. Black humour and shocking violence compete for screen time as we question whether or not Tom, right-hand man of the Irish mob leader, really has a heart.
8 October 1949
27 July 1942, Pontotoc, Mississippi, USA
9 May 1936, Salford, Greater Manchester, England, UK
29 December 1950, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
23 June 1957, Chicago, Illinois, USA
13 December 1957, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
18 March 1947, Rybnik, Slaskie, Poland
December 27, 2006
Loosley based on Hammett's novel and Chicago's Capone-O'Bannion gang war, the film is more impressive visually than thematically, though new angle of placing Irish, Italian, and Jewish gangsters in the same tale is intriguing.
January 01, 2000
While Miller's Crossing is not as messy or inspired as Martin Scorsese's GoodFellas, or as richly suggestive as The Godfather, it accomplishes exactly what it sets out to do.
June 24, 2006
It's arguably the US mainstream's first art movie since Days of Heaven; and quite wonderful.
November 06, 2007
It takes place in an artificial world constructed largely from the mythology of other movies, and, though it's both seamless and stylish, some find it a little too self-conscious for its own good.
May 01, 2011
It has always been one of the special pleasures of movies that they dream worlds and map them at the same time. Miller's Crossing dreams a beaut...
August 19, 2011
...joke-heavy and bullet-riddled and studded with some of the most crackling dialogue heard since 'The Front Page.'
November 06, 2007
It never fully convinces in terms of either period or plot.
March 11, 2008
Up there with the Coen brothers' finest work.
August 14, 2007
The Coens' take on Depression-era gangster flicks, looks gorgeous and showcases John Turturro's best acting ever.
May 20, 2003
Without much point at all.
November 06, 2007
Substance is here in spades, along with the twisted, brilliantly controlled style on which filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen made a name.
December 22, 2013
[The Coen brothers'] most complicated and dense movie.