Assertion: american gangster | /r/HasProperty | universal
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text: American Gangster (Universal), Ridley Scott’s epic about Harlem crime boss Frank Lucas, never reconciles its desire to be the black Scarface— a bloody, balls-out fantasy of crime as a form of ethnic empowerment—with its aspiration to be something weightier: a grittily realistic treatise on race, capitalism, and social mobility in America.