Some crime movies have kept things pretty simple on a narrative front and proved compelling nonetheless. There are tons of classic gangster movies, for example, that have a rise-and-fall narrative, ...

If any cinematic genre begs for a lengthy runtime, it’s the crime film. Many of them follow a rise and fall trajectory. And, in that case, we need to have the initial struggle, the excess, and the ...

What makes a crime film epic? There is, of course, the American Film Institute's strict definition of a cinematic epic as "a large-scale film set in a cinematic interpretation of the past," but the ...