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...undercover cop worms his way into the trust of a powerful mobster. The mobster's young protege joins the police force and rises quickly through the ranks. Each man knows there's an infiltrator in the other group, but neither knows who the mole is. The two double agents, good and bad, have to find out and, finally, they have to face off. Donnie Brasco, meet Kim Philby...
...took out the facts, it looks like we're talking about a Third World dictatorship," says Jay Stewart, executive director of Chicago's Better Government Association, a nonpartisan watchdog group formed in the 1920s out of concern for the rising influence of mobster Al Capone...
...past month that is set in New York City and involves some sort of criminal activity, and all are smart and entertaining: 16 Blocks, also starring Willis, as an alcoholic cop trying to get a witness to safety; Sidney Lumet's Find Me Guilty, in which Vin Diesel's mobster acts as his own defense lawyer; and Spike Lee's skillfully orchestrated story of a bank heist, Inside Man. None of them require the audience to embrace heavy-duty fantasy or comic-romantic fatuity. They have grit, wit and style, plus a semblance of reality--things popular American movies regularly...
...Diesel wore a wig and gained 30 lbs. to play real-life mobster Jackie DiNorscio in Find Me Guilty, a courtroom dramedy directed by Sidney Lumet...
...Hong Kong comedy. Who knew he was also a wildly gifted director, until this Buster Keaton--esque martial-arts comedy? In old Shanghai, a gang has scared everyone off the streets--everyone except the harder-than-jade residents of Pig Sty Alley, who help turn a mobster wannabe (Chow) into a Bruce Lee gotta-be. Behind the frantic fun is a directorial eye so acute it makes most Hollywood directors seem myopic...