A throwback in nearly every sense, "Gangster Squad" takes place in the glamorous Los Angeles of 1949, a time of Tommy guns, Zippo lighters and felt fedoras. Its script, too, feels old enough to ...

Rated R; runtime: 1 hour, 53 minutes; opens Friday nationwide A bullet-riddled bloodbath with an all-star cast, Gangster Squad is a lurid and ludicrous Mob thriller that glorifies a gangland ...

In Gangster Squad, Emma Stone plays Grace Faraday, a young woman who moves to Los Angeles with dreams of becoming a Hollywood star. While Stone — who moved to Los Angeles at the age of 15 to ...

Gangster Squad's massive ensemble cast includes Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, and Emma Stone. But the characters they play "are hardly more dimensional than caricatures, identifiable by ...

‘Gangster Squad’ Book With Movie Cover Hits Shelves Although Warner Bros. has pushed the noir film from Sept. 7 to Jan. 11, the nonfiction book still will go on sale on Aug. 7.

Exhibit A: Gangster Squad, a mob epic that flushes a classy cast (Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone) down the sinkhole of creative bankruptcy.

‘Look at our guys,’ she says, pointing to the Gangster Squad, preparing to shoot a new take. ‘They’re all wearing single-breasted suits.

With “Gangster Squad,” director Reuben Fleischer (“Zombieland”) attempts to tap into the classicism of 1940s noir films with a stacked deck of great talent, but comes up empty-handed.

One thing that will set Gangster Squad a part from many movies in theaters right now is its ridiculously short 113-minute run time. Director Ruben Fleischer made a really ballsy move releasing a ...

A triumph of production design but a pretty dull kill-’em-up otherwise, the post-World War II-set “Gangster Squad” comes from the director of “Zombieland,” Ruben Fleischer. It’s clear ...

Gangster Squad is based on the book by the same name, written by Paul Lieberman, a former Los Angeles Times writer/editor and the winner of dozens of journalism awards.

Due out on September 7, Gangster Squad technically doesn’t qualify as a summer blockbuster, but it’s most likely going to produce like one at the box office. Starring Sean Penn, Josh Brolin ...