Illtown

This convoluted crime drama offers a haunting view of the violent and ruthless world of three Miami drug dealers: Dante, his lover Micki and Cisco. Though only in their mid-'20s, all three are veterans in the field and have made their fortunes selling heroin to upper-middle-class clients at the ...more

Thug life has never looked as lush -- or as unbelievable -- as it does in Nick Gomez's doggedly idiosyncratic crime saga. "Quirky" doesn't begin to describe the contradictions at play in this Miami-set tale of drugs, honor, and betrayal, where Michael Rapaport's smooth, taciturn, generally benevolent drug lord Dante gets a comeuppance -- deserved or not -- that sends shock waves through his placid upper-middle class life. Simultaneously surreal and hyperreal, Gomez's work on Illtown belongs to ...more