Russell Crowe is a New Zealand-born actor who has excelled in both historical epics and contemporary dramas, from the Oscar-winning Gladiator to the psychological intensity of A Beautiful Mind and the neo-noir crime film The Nice Guys. I have reviewed 6 of his films on the site so far.
Rating: 2.5★
Kidnap thrillers were practically their own cottage industry around the turn of the millennium. The genre had plenty of fuel: real-world anxieties about political instability in Latin America, the post-Cold War scramble of private military contractors and crisis negotiators, and a film industry hungry for adult dramas that
Genre Drama
★★★ — A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Genre Action
★★★★ — Gladiator (2000)
Genre Action
★½ — Virtuosity (1995)
Genre Comedy
★★★ — The Nice Guys (2016)
Genre Crime
★★★★ — L.A. Confidential (1997)
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