Each character is imbued with the best kind of hard-boiled ambiguity.

Imaginative and likeable.

A bit more action-packed, but still similar to the previous installments.

Of similar quality to the original.

Smartly written, low-key dramatic thriller.

The bayou setting is a major character used to good effect, and it may as well have been an alien planet for how exotic and foreign it seems.

Deals with the insecurity of people in its many forms, in a familiar context.

A rare movie that seems nearly unedited.

Amazing that Cusack has disavowed this classic.

All the nuance of a TruTV crime reenactment. Also, Mira Sorvino’s method for drunkenness is to sound as if from northern Minnesota.