Not exact matches
The youngest brother of a trio of
gangsters is shot dead and
as they gather to mourn his death they relive his final days
as they try to find the
killer.
Equally indebted to Martin Scorsese, Guy Ritchie, and Giorgio Armani, London Boulevard represents the apotheosis of style over substance, the kind of
gangster flick where the cut of a
killer's suit is
as important
as the motive for his crime.
His turn
as the charismatic, somewhat socially inept,
gangster is one of the more relatable strands of the film, despite him being a contracted
killer.
Nuanced applies
as well to Macdonald's body of work, whether
as a bereft parent in Child, a woman threatened by a hired
killer in No Country for Old Men, a
gangster's wife in Boardwalk Empire or, yes, even the naive maid she played in «Gosford Park.»