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.

The 2015 neo-noir gangster thriller combines crime and ... the line between raw power and the gritty underworld is so miniscule it might as well be drawn in blood. At the center of the chaos ...

Now, however, the path was well-worn. Mine was the first step along the course marked out for us. After me, hundreds of footprints left their mark. How could you measure our obedience to the trainer?