Criminally overlooked; one of the best films of the year

We may have reached Peak Shane Black in 2016 and, gosh darn it, not that many people saw that threshold get crossed in theaters. Most audiences unfortunately seemed to gloss over The Nice Guys, the neo-noir-black-comedy-buddy-cop revival of the 2010s. Hearkening back to the gaudy mid-70s, Black crafted a funny and familiar world full of wood paneling, shag carpets, and sleazy porn mogul murder schemes ripped off the back of a pulp novella. The Iorn Man 3 director also populated that world with the “world’s worst detectives” pairing of Ryan Gosling’s ineffective drunkard private eye Holland March and Russell Crowe’s has-been enforcer Jackson Healey, who have to contend with porn star damsels in distress, eccentric blue-stained henchmen, and precociously crude children. http://www.cutprintfilm.com/features/the-best-films-of-2016/