The 30 Best Crime Movies on Netflix, According to Critics
On 2/20/21 at 7:00 AM EST
Crime films have been a genre since the very beginning of cinema, providing viewers their fix of daring deeds and intrigue. In the decades since, there have developed almost as many subgenres as there are crimes you can commit. From crime comedies to true crime chillers, Netflix offers a small but significant batch of critically acclaimed crime movies.
Below are the 30 highest-rated crime movies on Netflix according to their Rotten Tomatoes score, encompassing some all-time classic and some hidden treasures the sort of hidden treasure that someone might try to steal in a heist movie.
The Irishman in Los Angeles, Calif., October 24, 2019.
(Mario Anzuoni/Reuters) The flip side of Scorsese’s pessimism about the state of cinema today is a longing for good old days that weren’t actually all that good.
For a filmmaker who has repeatedly proved able to attract large budgets to make obviously uncommercial projects on his own terms, Martin Scorsese does a lot of complaining about the state of cinema. I think I can diagnose the source of his dyspepsia: He isn’t 17 anymore.
Scorsese’s latest broadside following his smackdown of comic-book movies, which was first widely publicized the same day