11.   It could have been a scene from an American gangster movie.

12.   It is a quirky, highly colorful, often very funny, generally well-cast and well-acted gangster movie, but it falls apart rapidly after its first good hour.

13.   Not one of the greatest gangster movies.

14.   One rule, for example, demanded that gangster movies punish their criminal anti-heroes before the end credits.

15.   Scenes remembered from old gangster movies discourage me from even the faintest smile.

16.   That film played like a cross between a dream of American gangster movies and the platonic essence of one.

17.   The classic American gangster movie actually grew out of similar ethnic universes.

18.   The government spends all week attacking the United States, and on Saturday they put on two movies, North American thrillers or gangster movies.

19.   The result was one of the most memorable scenes in the history of Hollywood gangster movies.

20.   This thinly disguised take on the life and crimes of mob king Al Capone is one of the films that helped define the Hollywood gangster movie.