Stream truly great cinema.
In the past couple of decades, Boston has been discovered as a seething, teeming hotbed of literary and cinematic crime. Its best writers (e.g., George V. Higgins, Dennis Lehane, etc.) have created an extraordinary gallery of losers, punks, murderers, grifters and all encompassed within a mileu as sad and despairing as Greek tragedy. They have also attracted several of our finest filmmakers (and a few hacks, as well). The following is a personal list of the best and worst (Boondock Saints) in this sub-genre. Missing are some workmanlike gems like The Brink’s Job (dir. William Friedkin) and Walk East on Beacon, and horrors like...