This documentary about Nicky Barnes is undeniably fascinating, but you might want to take a shower after hanging out with this unsavory bunch. By Kirk Honeycutt, The Associated Press What all this ...

This is a good time to be an O.G. — an original gangster. “American Gangster,” the Denzel Washington/Russell Crowe epic about the career of 1970s Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas, opened to acclaim ...

This is a good time to be an O.G., an original gangster. The Denzel Washington/Russell Crowe-starring epic about the career of 1970s Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas, “American Gangster,” is set to open ...

Mr. Untouchable (Magnolia Pictures) is a film about Leroy “Nicky” Barnes, a former junkie at age fourteen, who in 1965 was sent to prison for low level drug dealing. He later overcame his addiction ...

I'll have something to say about Ridley Scott's American Gangster when it opens next week (preview: well-made but somewhat familiar). In the meantime, though, you might want to take a look at the ...

Alternately seduced and repelled by its subject, the garish and power-hungry Harlem gangster and '70s cocaine kingpin Nicky Barnes, "Mr. Untouchable" is one seriously confused documentary. Alternately ...

Alternately seduced and repelled by its subject, the garish and power-hungry Harlem gangster and '70s cocaine kingpin Nicky Barnes, "Mr. Untouchable" is one seriously confused documentary. Alternately ...

Legendary '70s heroin kingpin Leroy "Nicky" Barnes is filmed like a deposed king in exile in Mr. Untouchable, Marc Levin's slick look at one of New York's most notorious criminal masterminds. Since ...

Marc Levin brought a high level of personal curiosity and commitment to his previous documentary, The Protocols of Zion (2005), but those qualities are nowhere to be found in this standard true-crime ...