Mark Wahlberg's New Crime Drama Earns One Of His Lowest Box Office Debuts Ever

By Any Means beats on Klansmen but can't beat its own tired thriller script

There’s almost something of a good movie inside director Elegance Bratton’s By Any Means. The Civil Rights-era thriller, loosely based on a true story, wrestles with a less-than-heroic chapter in the FBI’s handling of white supremacist violence in the South, back when the agency greenlit a Yankee goon to crack some racist skulls in order to get some answers. Is it cathartic to watch racists get what’s coming to them? To an extent. Ultimately, th…

Mark Wahlberg's New Crime Drama Earns One Of His Lowest Box Office Debuts Ever

The new Mark Wahlberg crime drama movie is set to earn one of the Oscar-nominated star's 10 lowest domestic opening weekends in history.

‘By Any Means’ Earns a Solid Cinemascore as Audiences Respond to Its Wild True Crime Premise

Historical thrillers built around real events often walk a delicate line between respecting the facts and delivering the kind of dramatic tension audiences expect from a night at the movies. When a premise sounds almost too outrageous to be true, that balancing act becomes even trickier to pull off convincingly. That’s precisely the challenge facing...

'By Any Means' Earns a Solid CinemaScore as Mark Wahlberg's Crime Thriller Hits Theaters

True crime stories set against the backdrop of the civil rights era have become something of a reliable draw for Hollywood, blending historical weight with the kind of tension that keeps audiences engaged from the opening scene. Paramount’s latest addition to that genre pairs an unlikely duo against a particularly dark chapter of American history....