With its title that immediately calls to mind William Wellman’s rip-roaring 1931 film classic, Mann’s crime epic is a cool and calculated throwback to the romanticized heyday of gangster films. Mann is clearly infatuated with the illicit glamour and the allure of the gangster lifestyle, and he can’t help but indulge in some of the very pleasures he’s simultaneously attempting to deconstruct. Depp is perfectly cast as the idiosyncratic and charming Dillinger, but Mann’s use of digital video for the images is at constant odds with the subject matter. (Hollywood Jewel 16, Waco, TX)