Like The Godfather, but modern
The moral weight, masculine decay, and slow-burn dread of The Godfather — set in the contemporary world.
There Will Be Blood
2007A man consumed by ambition — Daniel Plainview is a modern Corleone
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No Country for Old Men
2007Violence, consequence, and the same cold inevitability
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Sicario
2015The drug trade as moral labyrinth, shot with Corleone-era gravity
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Prisoners
2013How far will a father go — slow, devastating, morally complex
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Hell or High Water
2016Texas poverty, two brothers, and a system that grinds everyone down
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