In films about municipal corruption, all politics is marsupial: every office holder is in a plutocrat’s pocket. That brand of cynicism wafted through last week’s Gangster Squad, in which a posse of rogue-cop heroes applied a blood colonic to postwar L.A. Now the misanthropy gets sprayed, like Pepe LePew’s perfume, all over Broken City. The city is New York, more or less; Mayor Nicolas Hostetler (Russell Crowe) holds the town’s big steel balls in his hand; and the agents of reform are outmaneuvered at every turn by some very smooth malefactors. The third crime drama in ... Read More