The phrase “film noir” often calls to mind the image of a fedora-clad sleuth investigating a perplexing crime that may or may not involve the woman he loves in a shadow-swarmed city in the 1940s.

When it comes to getting into noir films, it's always worth asking ... the site's tally reviewed the movie positively. The ...

"Ripley," which deploys noir-style shadow and light compositions to visualize ... to help define its protagonist as a soft-boiled detective who subverts the tough-guy persona by giving a homeless ...