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

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 RyanWhat THR's critics say about the movies opening this week.Last July's Aurora, Colo., shooting at a screening of The Dark Knight Rises that left 12 dead and more wounded shook everyone, including Gangster Squad's filmmakers. The crime drama starring Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone and Sean Penn is aTaking its name and inspiration from a real LAPD operation that battled organized crime during the 1940s and '50s, the new film "Gangster Squad" dramatizes the story of Sgt. John O'Mara (played by Josh Brolin) and his squad's crusade against theJanuary slouches on with the release of Gangster Squad, a bloody revision of

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