Critics praised Cronenberg’s exploration of the way that human beings condemn violence while also craving it.
Here he plays a small-town family man with a mysterious past who is drawn into a showdown with the Irish mob out of Philadelphia, including a couple of psycho gangsters played with great relish by Ed Harris and William Hurt. The results included a pair of critically acclaimed mob movies: Eastern Promises, about the Russian mob in London, and A History of Violence.īoth films star Viggo Mortensen, subverting his hero image from The Lord of the Rings trilogy, released just a few years earlier. (TIE) A History of Violence (2005) – 87% New Line CinemaĪt the turn of the century, Canadian auteur David Cronenberg pivoted away from the sci-fi/body horror movies he was known for ( The Fly, Scanners, Dead Ringers, eXistenZ) to work in other genres. Here are the greatest American mob movies, according to Rotten Tomatoes.
but organized crime movies tend to loom above them all in our popular consciousness. Of course, there are many great crime movies - cop thrillers, heist capers, prison flicks, street gang chronicles, etc. Perhaps because they hold up a mirror to the traditional American preoccupations of family and business, showing us that our values may not always be as virtuous as we would hope, we tend to regard them as some of our most cherished cinematic achievements. (TIE) Once Upon a Time in America (1984) – 87%
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