“[A]n extremely smart, enjoyable pastiche of sepia-toned tough-guy movies, the kind that used to star Warren Oates or were directed by Sam Peckinpah”

- Desson Howe

“A threepenny opera of lurid plot turns, oceanic bloodletting, and pseudo-existential dialogue”

- Tom Block

The Way of the Gun

Benicio Del Toro and Ryan Phillippe kidnap a pregnant surrogate mother (Juliette Lewis), not knowing that the parents-to-be have heavy ties with the Mob and will send their nastiest partners-in-crime to deliver the ransom. James Caan, Taye Diggs, Nicky Katt, Scott Wilson. Director: Christopher McQuarrie (2000, R)