Deep Cover (1992)

Ostensibly on its surface a stylish blaxploitation gangster movie about an undercover cop infiltrating the drug game in LA that instead of simply applying the usual men-on-opposite-sides-of-the-law moral contradictions morphs into a mean, existential neo-noir about the war…

Josh Lewis

"No, Mr. Guzman. I think you know that there's no such thing as an American anymore. No Hispanics, no Japanese, no blacks, no whites, no nothing. It's just rich people and poor people. The three of us are all rich, so we're on the same side." The God Bill Duke turns in…

Will Menaker

"The same people that taught us virtue are the very ones who've enslaved us, baby." A terrific thriller firmly in blaxploitation territory. It'd be enough if this was just about a conflicted undercover cop as an analog for a community complicit in its destruction at the…

matt lynch

“You are a drug dealer. Deal drugs” In which undercover cop turned drug dealer Laurence Fishburne gets crucified for all the war on drugs sins. One of the finest mainstream political films of the 90s. A bloody text on the horrors of government policy towards the black and…

Filipe Furtado

"There's no such thing as an American anymore. No Hispanics, no Japanese, no blacks, no whites. There's no nothing. There's only rich people and poor people." So says Jeff Goldblum's superbly slimy lawyer/wannabe kingpin David Jason in Bill Duke's brute-poetic noir, a…

Jake Cole

the most american gangster flick there will ever be. a nakedly political, brutal, horrifying look at the truest scum of humanity, the state department of the united states. murder, drugs, black people dying on the streets from crack or bullets, kingpins lording their wealth…

Logan Kenny

“See you soon David!” “Yeah, we’ll have shrimp!” A satisfying thriller that’s also an amazing character study of a cop who gets seduced by his undercover assignment that’s also a trenchant indictment of the war on drugs. Plus Jeff Goldblum screaming “We’ll have shrimp!”…

Matt Singer

Saw this in a cinema in 92, revisited for the first time tonight.  Still works.  The story is classic hard-boiled noir, Bill Duke’s work is tight and energetic, and the performers — Mr. Fishburne, Mr. Goldblum, Victoria Dillard, Charles Martin Smith, the late great Clarence…

carrieandtracy

Laurence Fishburne is so cool... I wish NBC Hannibal was still on the air

fran hoepfner