Mr. Untouchable (2007)

Less a dispassionate examination than a celebratory infomercial on its central character.

[Director] Levin skillfully mixes the Barnes interviews with news clippings, 1970s street scenes and the recollections of Mr. Untouchable's former associates.

It's fast and furious, and it proves that crime doesn't pay, unless you know how to do it right.

Nonjudgmental without being morally dense, the film makes human sense out of an inhuman example of addiction capitalism, '70s style.

Marc Levin, whose last documentary, Protocols of Zion, was a gutsy examination of post-9/11 anti-Semitism, has an even tougher job on his hands with Leroy 'Nicky' Barnes: making the man interesting.

A fascinating first-person account of drug kingpin and ruthless gangster Nicky Barnes, whose outrageous story of rise, rule, rage, and revenge requires no such stylistic filler.