It's been quite some time since the period gangster genre has had any sort of presence on the big screen, but unlike the "Godfathers" and "Goodfellas" and movies that glorify the crime side of things, the action thriller Gangster Squad looks at the war on organized crime from the police point of view. Based on true story of Los Angeles in the 1940s, it stars Ryan Gosling and Josh Brolin as Sgts. Jerry Wooters and John O'Hara who assemble a team of officers, played by Anthony Mackie, Michael Peña, Giovanni Ribisi and Robert Patrick, to work outside the law to take on the influx of criminals from Chicago, most notably Mickey Cohen as played by Sean Penn. What might not be so obvious from the trailers and commercials is that it's also the latest movie from...
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