Gangster Squad
The movie follows Los Angeles Police Department officers and detectives who formed a group called the 'Gangster Squad unit' who attempted to take down ruthless Mickey Cohen and his gang during the 1940s and 1950s and restore peace to the city.
5 December 1965, San Alejo, La Union, El Salvador
2 February 1949, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
21 May 1988, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
June 21, 2016
Those who are calling it shallow and cartoony and clichéd are missing the point. It is all of those things, purposefully - gleefully, even.
August 05, 2015
Okay, so maybe nobody expected Gangster Squad to be in the league of, say, Chinatown or L.A. Confidential, but even on the level of pure, bullet-spattered fun, this thing is so vaporous that it slides out of memory even while you're watching it.
January 11, 2013
It might sound like a stretch, imagining Penn playing that intense, indiosyncratic a villain. But the lauded, veteran actor pulls a left hook, then a right, and after a wild bodyshot at the tail end of the film, you see the true mania behind his eyes.
November 04, 2013
A nod toward nostalgia, a grandiose display of the arrogance of the present: this seems to be the whole program of Gangster Squad.
January 11, 2013
Gangster Squad" is a highly stylized, pulp-fiction period piece based on true events.
January 21, 2013
Some of the clothes and makeup feel as glossy as paint, but, those aside, we seem to browsing through a display of secondhand goods.
January 11, 2013
Despite a cast of gifted actors, lush 1940s production design and suave costumes, it's bereft of inspiration, plowing familiar terrain past the point of tedium to impatience.
January 11, 2013
Director Ruben Fleischer and screenwriter Will Beall can't decide whether to make a spoof or a serious drama, so they wrongheadedly attempt both.
April 12, 2016
Visually? Sure, it's impressive. But on all other fronts it leaves nothing but a couple muddy footprints and a signpost of misplaced potential.
February 05, 2013
Gangster Squad looks the part, but it's so superficial it practically evaporates before our eyes.
April 28, 2015
Gosling's smirk conveys a contempt for the material rivaled only by my own.
