Devil in a Blue Dress | Full Movie | Movies Anywhere

I’ve long been a champion of this film, as it’s precisely the kind of push forward I like to see in a studio film. Taking old conventions and finding ways to update them is what to do when so much talent is available to accomplish something special.

Don Cheadle steals the show whenever he is on the screen. The plot is intricate and well written, but Moseley needs to broaden his images of women.

I will not unravel the story for you because that is half the fun of watching this kind of movie. Go see it.

In Devil, folks like Easy Rawlins have long since learned to roll with the racial punches. It's precisely that kind of offhand profundity that makes the movie so memorable. Franklin's picture is effortlessly wise beneath its entertaining surface.

Thanks to screenwriter and director Carl Franklin, Devil has blossomed into a compulsively watchable mystery, a redolently atmospheric period piece, and a provocative meditation on race, ambition and civics.