A thorough, focused study of the first major films of an artist who "wrote with a camera."
Josef von Sternberg’s film is a fascinating early cornerstone of both the director’s worldview and the gangster genre.
Little Caesar feels stilted when stacked up against its tougher depression-era contemporaries.
An overrated groundbreaker with a memorable lead performance, it’s only vital for the die-hard Warner Bros. gangster series completist.