I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead

Mike Hodges, who made one of the best British crime films of the seventies in Get Carter, reteams with his Croupier star Clive Owen for another dip in the same dark, icy pond. Like Carter, Sleep involves a hard-as-nails gangster antihero who returns to his old haunts to exact vengeance on those who killed his brother. It’s a familiar trope of the genre, but, to his credit, Hodges seems more interested in approaching the material from odd angles than offering up the same old story once again, and he isn’t afraid to make the viewing audience (gasp) think a little bit.