8 Underrated Crime Movies You Need to Watch This Week

Huge movie.guru scores, a fraction of the IMDb votes. Everyone keeps rewatching the same old mob classics while these sit right there. Fix that this week.

Number one has the silliest premise on this list, and I'm calling it art.

1. 8
   Inside Man (2006)7.6

   Spike Lee made a studio heist movie, and it's sneakily brilliant.

   $186 million worldwide and 86% on Rotten Tomatoes. Denzel Washington negotiates, Clive Owen smirks behind a mask, and Jodie Foster plays the scariest fixer in New York.
2. 7
   Donnie Brasco (1997)8.1

   A mob movie about a friendship you know is doomed.

   Critics rank it above 84% of notable movies. Johnny Depp goes undercover with the mob, Al Pacino plays the tired lifer who vouches for him, and the dread never lets up.
3. 6
   Wind River (2017)8.5

   A thriller where the cold is the scariest character.

   Made on a reported $11 million, with a 7.7 on IMDb. Elizabeth Olsen's FBI agent arrives out of her depth, and Graham Greene's tribal police chief gets every great line.
4. 5
   BlacKkKlansman (2018)8.5

   Adam Driver is the quiet heart of a loud true story.

   96% on Rotten Tomatoes and the fewest IMDb votes on this list, 318,157. Spike Lee mixes buddy-cop laughs with real history, and he never lets the jokes get comfortable.
5. 4
   Once Upon a Time in America (1984)8.7

   Sergio Leone's gangster epic deserves your whole Sunday.

   8.3 on IMDb, and it made just $5.3 million in U.S. theaters. Robert De Niro and James Woods grow up together on the Lower East Side, then spend decades paying for it.
6. 3
   The Fugitive (1993)9.3

   A manhunt so tight you forget to blink for 130 minutes.

   A 9.4 on movie.guru, an A+ CinemaScore and $368.9 million worldwide, from only 351,392 IMDb votes. A one-armed man, a dam, a parade, and not one wasted clue.
7. 2
   Uncut Gems (2019)8.1

   Kevin Garnett gives the best athlete performance in movie history.

   Made for a reported $19 million, with a 93 on Metacritic. Adam Sandler sells jewelry at warp speed, and Garnett plays himself like he's been acting for years.
8. 1
   Face/Off (1997)7.9

   Face/Off is high art, and critics are on my side.

   93% on Rotten Tomatoes, 82 on Metacritic, and critics rank it above 89% of notable movies. John Woo delivers a prison with magnetic boots and a shootout set to Over the Rainbow. Pure art.

$972 says you put on Face/Off ironically and stop being ironic before the opening credits end.

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