R | 1h 53min | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 13 March 2020 (USA, Limited)
Crime-drama films can be tough to pull off. Because they’re typically set in a real time and place, they have to portray their stories realistically, with believable acting and good directing. Many fail in this regard, such as my last review on the crime yarn “Spenser Confidential,” where it was oh-too-obvious that we were watching actors playing characters. However, it doesn’t necessarily take a large budget to suspend a viewer’s sense of disbelief, as with the new gritty film “The Informer,” directed by Andrea Di Stefano.
