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The Yards
Why this pick
James Gray’s earlier New York crime drama shares the bruised family loyalties, working-class fatalism, and slow-building sense that one compromise can pull everyone under.
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MOVIE2007 1h 57m USA
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Why this pick
A restrained, morally pressurized New York crime story where a businessman and his wife face escalating threats, rendered with the same grave, period-specific urban melancholy.
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The Drop
Why this pick
This tightly controlled Brooklyn noir favors quiet menace, compromised loyalties, and tense encounters over flashy action, with a similarly nocturnal criminal underworld.
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Why this pick
Set in 1970s New York, it centers on brothers divided by crime and responsibility, sustaining the same mournful family conflict and doomed criminal pull.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Brooklyn, 1988. Bobby Green is the manager of the El Caribe nightclub in Brighton Beach, which is frequented by Russian mobster and drug lord Vadim Nezhinski and owned by Vadim's uncle Marat Buzhayev.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Joaquin Phoenix
Bobby Green
Mark Wahlberg
Joseph Grusinsky
Eva Mendes
Amanda Juarez
Robert Duvall
Burt Grusinsky
Oleg Taktarov
Pavel Lubyarsky
Antoni Corone
Michael Solo
Katie Condidorio
Hazel
Danny Hoch
Jumbo Falsetti