Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 40 darkly comic 40 noirish 38 semi autobiographical 37 filmic 36 gritty 36 darkly funny 36 grittier 36 noir 35 film noir 34 Ellroy 34 thriller 33 reimagining 33 pulpy 33 reimagined 32 brooding 32 watchable 32 charming 32 engrossing 32 verisimilitude 32 wry 32 fictionalized 31 riveting 31 Death Wish 31 melodrama 31 picaresque 31 campy 31 Perdition 31 meatier 31 melodramatic 31 flinty 30 bleakness 30 countrified 30 drama 30 suburbia 30 morally ambiguous 30 Dirty Harry 30 richly textured 30 nuanced 30 suspenseful 30 cinematic 29 novelistic 29 maudlin 29 streetwise 29 melancholy 29 funnier 29 beguiling 29 seamy 29 lyrical 29 rawness 29 subtlety 29 unsentimental 29 pastiche 29 taut 29 character 29 bravura 29 thrillingly 29 angst ridden 29 genre bending 29 urbanity 28 quirky 28 slickness 28 grittiest 28 naturalistic 28 gothic 28 offbeat 28 evocative 28 expressionistic 28 soulful 28 recognizably 28 Gritty 28 punky 28 rawer 27 nihilistic 27 sensibility 27 edgy 27 moody 27 grittiness 27 darkly humorous 27 introspective 27 rough hewn 27 pulp fiction 27 Dickensian 27 quirkier 27 rootsy 27 stolid 27 gangster 27 arty 27 dark underbelly 27 formulaic 26 feisty 26 melancholic 26 cliched 26 raunchier 26 elegiac 26 ballsy 26 edgier 26 sassy 26 clichéd 26 genteel 26 stylistically 26 creepier