In the vein of crime classics like Mean Streets and Infernal Affairs, this film follows two immigrant friends, Sonny and Steven, who survive the hard streets of New York in the 1980s by joining Chinatown gang The Green Dragons. (waytooindie.com)
Josh and Benny Safdie, NYC's most reliable filmmaking duo (also of 2014's Heaven Knows What), upped their game with this instant crime classic, starring a totally transformed Robert Pattinson as an outer - borough thief trying to spring his brother out of Rikers. (timeout.com)
In my review from the Telluride Film Festival, I compared it to the likes of other crime classics such as David Fincher's Zodiac and Seven or even Silence of the Lambs, and wrote «the movie succeeds thanks to Villeneuve's excellent direction of Guzikowski's script, and a cast that really gives it their all.» (firstshowing.net)