American Gangster is a movie with obvious gravitas and a familiar argument: Organized crime is outsider capitalism. As archetypal as its title, Ridley Scott’s would-be epic aspires to enshrine Harlem ...

Denzel Washington starred in American Gangster at 53 years old. He played the leading drug lord, Frank Lucas, and did so with the highest combination of charm and danger. Oh, and not forgetting, a ...

The ruling cliché in writing about crime bosses — “the gangster as tragic hero” — was coined in 1948 by Robert Warshow, an extremely intelligent cultural critic, whose premature passing in 1955 robbed ...

One of Russell Crowe’s most iconic movies that saw him team up with a two-time Oscar-winning star just got the streaming update that fans have been dreading. 18 years ago, Crowe starred alongside ...

NBC News' Matt Lauer sits down with the people behind the new politically and emotionally explosive movie "American Gangster" -- actors Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe, director Ridley Scott, ...

For as much heat as they take, there’s often nothing quite like watching a great gangster movie. Gangsters are among the most compelling characters in America in part because they seem to be so ...

One of Denzel Washington's films, which many feel is his biggest Oscar nomination snub, just got a major streaming update. American Gangster, the 2007 crime thriller which Washington stars in ...

Director Ridley Scott knows many things about having a critically acclaimed film, and he managed to do so in different genres. Many of them reunited him with frequent collaborator Russell Crowe. Such ...

One Denzel Washington movie where he gives arguably his best performance to not earn an Oscar nomination is a smash hit on the biggest streaming service in the world. American Gangster, which ...

Watching "American Gangster" in tandem with "Mr. Untouchable" underlines that the Hollywood film is less based on actual fact than on movie fiction. What "American Gangster" is doing is recreating ...