Neither a luridly enjoyable piece of Scarface-style pulp or a nuanced genre subversion, Idris Elba's directorial debut is a fitfully entertaining 1980s gangster thriller.
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This review of Yardie (2018) was written by Jimi Famurewa and published by Empire Magazine on 27 Aug 2018.
Yardie has generally received mixed reviews.
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