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 ...

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.

‘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.

Critics often miss the mark in their reviews, and there have been plenty of great crime and gangster movies that have been unfairly considered rotten.

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 ...

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

The Gangster Squad was formed in 1946 to keep East Coast Mafia out of L.A. Its ‘anything goes’ approach endured through the 1950s in an era when justice was found far from the courthouse ...

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 ...

Not that its an entirely bad thing. Gangster Squad is fun. It’s basically an updated version of The Untouchables and a combination of L.A. Confidential and Dick Tracy. You know everything that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...