American Gangster is a movie with obvious gravitas and a familiar argument: Organized crime is outsider capitalism. As archetypal as its title, Ridley Scott’s would-be epic aspires to enshrine Harlem ...

Ridley Scott’s American Gangster features crime lord Denzel Washington and cop Russell Crowe facing off, and it’s officially available on Netflix.

One of Denzel Washington's films, which many feel is his biggest Oscar nomination snub, just got a major streaming update. American Gangster, the 2007 crime thriller which Washington stars in ...

For as much heat as they take, there’s often nothing quite like watching a great gangster movie. Gangsters are among the most compelling characters in America in part because they seem to be so ...

The ruling cliché in writing about crime bosses — “the gangster as tragic hero” — was coined in 1948 by Robert Warshow, an extremely intelligent cultural critic, whose premature passing in 1955 robbed ...

One Denzel Washington movie where he gives arguably his best performance to not earn an Oscar nomination is a smash hit on the biggest streaming service in the world. American Gangster, which ...

In Ridley Scott’s American Gangster, Denzel Washington plays the title character, North Carolina-born Frank Lucas, a Harlem drug kingpin who, back during the Vietnam War, became both ghoulishly ...