'Gangster Squad' a stylish but shallow noir tale, critics say

Ryan Gosling and Sean Penn in a mob-movie misfire.

There's a great, emblematic exchange in the new movie Gangster Squad, one you've surely seen in the film's TV ads, where Emma Stone, playing a 1940s moll in a crimson dress with a slit up to her hip socket, asks Ryan

Read our 'Gangster Squad' review to find out if Ruben Fleischer has delivered a provocative and entertaining crime drama movie.

FRIDAY 2 PM 2ND UPDATE (dictated): I said "not so fast": sources telling me that, based on matinee trends, Annapurna Pictures/Sony Pictures' Zero Dark Thir.

What THR's critics say about the movies opening this week.