For some Americans, the 1990s marked a time of peace and prosperity. For others, it was a time of exacerbated inequality and violence. That duality helps explain the explosion of crime movies during ...

Cinema has been fascinated with crime since the birth of the medium. Whether it's in period Westerns to the modern day all the way into the future, audiences are relentlessly drawn to stories of ...

When discussing the crime genre and the movies that fall into this category, they're often described as gritty, real, and unflinching, especially when they're from the 1990s. Since the '90s was a ...