Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)

Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)

[8] I very much enjoyed Drew Goddard's previous work on Cloverfield and The Cabin in the Woods, and I'm a big fan of single-location ensemble stories, so I was excited to see what Goddard had in store with Bad Times…
The Paperboy (2012)

The Paperboy (2012)

[7] Lee Daniels (Precious, The Butler) directs this moody piece about a college dropout who helps his older brother investigate the murder of a police officer. The convicted killer's girlfriend joins the investigation to help prove his innocence. Zac Efron…
The Snowtown Murders (2011)

The Snowtown Murders (2011)

[7] Director Justin Kurzel tells the true story of Australia's most notorious serial killer through the eyes of his teenaged accomplice. Teenager Jamie (Lucas Pittaway) falls in with his mother's new boyfriend, John Bunting (Daniel Henshall). Bunting becomes a father…
BlacKkKlansman (2018)

BlacKkKlansman (2018)

[7] Spike Lee directs the stranger-than-fiction true story of a black Colorado police officer who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s. John David Washington stars as Ron Stallworth, who struck up a relationship with local KKK members over…
Ladies They Talk About (1933)

Ladies They Talk About (1933)

[5] Pre-Code bad girl Barbara Stanwyck stars in this hybrid of a love story and a prison movie. Stanwyck plays Nan, a woman who works with a team of mobsters who rob banks. She goes in and distracts the security…
All the Money in the World (2017)

All the Money in the World (2017)

[8] Ridley Scott (The Martian, Alien) directs the true-life tale of the 1973 Getty kidnapping. After masked men whisk 16-year-old John Paul Getty III off the streets of Rome, his mother tries to get the ransom money from the boy's…
Sneakers (1992)

Sneakers (1992)

[7] Robert Redford leads an all-star ensemble cast under the direction of Phil Alden Robinson (Field of Dreams). Redford plays a high-tech security professional who works with a team of specialists to test security systems. When government agents blackmail him…
Insomnia (2002)

Insomnia (2002)

[7] In this remake of a Swedish film, an L.A. detective and his partner get loaned out to a town in Alaska where night never falls for half the year. While they're hunting a killer, the detective accidentally kills his…
Serpico (1973)

Serpico (1973)

[6] Al Pacino stars in the true story of Frank Serpico, a New York City cop who discovers a city-wide bribe scheme police are profiting from and rejects becoming part of it. But in doing so, he loses the trust…
Reform School Girls (1986)

Reform School Girls (1986)

[6] A young woman is sent to a reform school with an abusive warden and downwright evil supervisor. She tries her best to stay out of the way of her fellow inmates, including a muscle-bound hard-ass named Charlie (Wendy O.…