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Favorite Movies of All Time (2015 Edition) (1001 movies items)" 2014: 227 2013: 226 2012: 224 2011: 222 2010: 224 2009: 226 2008: 226 2007: 228 "
A New Decade! A New Year! Movies Watched In 2020 (641 movies items)"Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. The true story of one of the most powerful drug lords in the United States: Frank Lucas. Director Ridley Scott tells the rough gangster story with epic breath and big pictures. "
Favorite Movies of All Time (2014 Edition) (1000 movies items)" 2013: 226 2012: 224 2011: 222 2010: 224 2009: 226 2008: 226 2007: 228 "
Favorite Movies of All Time (2013 Edition) (1000 movies items)"2012: 224 2011: 222 2010: 224 2009: 226 2008: 226 2007: 228 "
Favorite Movies of All Time (2012 Edition) (1000 movies items)"2011: 222 2010: 224 2009: 226 2008: 226 2007: 228 "
“Big, perfunctory, and obviously reaching for the lofty heights of Martin Scorsese’s gangster epics or Francis Ford Coppola’s Godfather series, American Gangster is the bloated sight of a former master coasting. Here is a wannabe prestige epic about a real-life figure that coasts along an unearned sense of import without providing any memorable images or excavation of its characters moral weight. There are bland poses made towards trying to contort Frank Lucas into a symbol of upward mobility and American “can-do” spirit but contrasting him with Richie Roberts just unintentionally glamorizes the gangster to the point that his violence becomes defanged. Hell, I just watched American Gangster and I’m having a hard time conjuring much of it back up in my memory. Ridley Scott cir” read more
Favorite Movies of All Time (2011 Edition) (1000 movies items)"2010: 224 2009: 226 2008: 226 2007: 228 "
Favorite Movies of All Time (2010 Edition)
