A Very British Gangster

Embedded for three years with the notorious Noonan crime family in Manchester, England, the journalist Donal MacIntyre — the British answer to Geraldo Rivera — became a willing conduit for the outsize egos and self-serving confessions of its members. As a result, “A Very British Gangster” plays less like a documentary than an E! exposé of lowlife skulduggery.

If Tony Soprano had a cheekier, less haunted, openly gay British counterpart, it would be Dominic Noonan, the Manchester crime boss profiled in the stylish and compelling "A Very British Gangster." Director Donal MacIntyre, an award-winning investigative journalist, aptly calls his exposé "a movie disguised as a documentary"; it has the rhythm and look of a mainstream action film, along with a sharp [...] Vai alla recensione »