Review of Gangster Squad (2013) by Igor A — 01 Dec 2013

Sean Penn,.

Ryan Gosling,.

Josh Brolin,.

Emma Stone,.

Michael Peña,.

Giovanni Ribisi,.

Robert Patrick,.

Nick Nolte.

This review of Gangster Squad (2013) was written by Igor A on 01 Dec 2013.

Gangster Squad has generally received mixed reviews.

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By Hunter W (136) on 17 Jan 2017

The potential of this movie is searingly obvious, but the dialogue alone doused the flame of whatever Gangster Squad could have been…

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Rich period piece with a great cast... A more action oriented version of the approximately same storied Mulholland Falls (1996). On Blu-ray…

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By Larushka Ivan-Zadeh (441) for Metro (UK) (700) on 31 Aug 2017

Gangster Squad is slight pulp fiction that offers all-out, balls-to-the-wall action riddled with as many clichés as bullets…

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By Tyranian (764) on 07 Apr 2019

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By Joanna B (248) on 24 Oct 2016

Evoking the glitz and glamour of the 1940's golden age of Hollywoodland, Gangster Squad pays fastidious attention to period costumes, architecture…

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By Yasemin Y (339) on 14 Jun 2017

Gangster Squad is an entertaining, if entirely predictable, film that has the gloss and grit you'd expect from 1940's LA…

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By Chris W (2,796) on 18 Jul 2016

Despite some mixed reviews I'd figure I wanted to point it...it was pretty good in my eyes…

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