Top 10 Movies: Crime
The highest-graded crime movies we have reviewed, best first.
The Shawshank RedemptionA machine for delivering earned catharsis, and every part is load-bearing.Read the review
The GodfatherAmerican cinema's high-water mark; a corruption arc told in candlelight and doorways.
Pulp FictionThe film that rewired 1990s cinema and still talks faster than its imitators.
The DepartedScorsese's nastiest entertainment, a two-mole thriller that keeps tightening until the elevator opens.
The Dark KnightThe superhero film that stopped being one and became a crime epic instead.
GoodfellasScorsese's most propulsive picture, a mob life sold as intoxication and then billed in full.
Se7enRain, rot and a box: Fincher's procedural commits to its nihilism and never blinks at the end.
The Wolf of Wall StreetThree hours of pure appetite, staged as comedy and edited like an amphetamine.
The Usual SuspectsA magic trick with a bulletin board, and knowing the ending only makes the construction more impressive.
The Hateful EightTarantino locks eight liars in one room and shoots it like a landscape.
