The Godfather

Brando as Vito Corleone, don of a New York mob family, is “a performance that’s briefer than you remember, but that haunts not just the rest of Coppola’s hugely successful trilogy, but the crime movie in general. . . . Facing new competition and an uncertain passing-of-the-torch to his children [Corleone is] a representative of an older, simpler world, one that Brando himself had helped to put away, and there’s a deep melancholy . . . at the way he visibly slips away” (IndieWire).