T here have been a lot of terrific modern noir movies that serve as reminders that the genre's influence and tropes have had a lasting impact on cinema. The noir genre rose to prominence in the ...

In fact, it’s often harder to pinpoint what constitutes as “neo-noir” as opposed to film noir. Films like Blade Runner, Chinatown, Oldboy, L.A. Confidential and Se7en (and much of both David ...

Hooray, then, for "Echo Valley", a "twisty modern noir" that marks the return of "American cinema for grown-ups". It is a ...

“After Hours” Courtesy Warner Bros. Neo-noir is a film genre that updates and adapts the characteristics of film noir with modern themes and techniques. The 1960s and early 1970s ushered in a ...

The genre enjoyed its height during the 1940s and ’50s. Since then, film noir has fallen out of fashion, and while modern neo-noir movies exploring similar themes are common, they aren’t ...

It feels very real and modern.” While Hollywood’s film noir golden age peaked in a postwar America that welcomed cynical detectives and wise-guy crooks, today’s hard-boiled crime stories ...