Movie audiences have always found the lure of the crime genre irresistible.
Sometimes, he makes movies that lie somewhere in between.
The Irishmanis undoubtedly one ofScorsese’s best crime movies.
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It’s the story ofGerry Conlon(Day-Lewis), whose coerced confession to an I.R.A.
bombing he did not commit gets him and his father imprisoned.
Thus starts a year-long legal fight to clear his and his father’s names.
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Stories founded on miscarriages of justice always make for gripping movies that generate tension, frustration, and catharsis.
Patient and full of life,In the Name of the Fatheris as powerful as historical crime films get.
When the heist suddenly goes south, the experience becomes a nightmare.
Dog Day Afternoonis one of those movies where everything that could go wrong does, indeed, go wrong.
One of his best works isMemories of Murder, perhapsthe greatest film about a real-life serial killerever made.
By the time the movie was made,the killer hadn’t been caught yet.
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