Harlem Shuffle

Loved this one. It's a great dip into a stylized harlem of a particular historic moment.

Plusses:
+ Great noir-ish dialogue, plot and characters.
+ A complex (but not that complex) protagonist.
+ Steeped in race relations of the time, but informative of present-day racism.
+ That plot! So fun.
+ Really fun structure, too, which jumps ahead just a bit, several times.
+ the character Pepper.

Minuses:
- zero well-fleshed out female characters. Would have added to the novel to involve the protagonist's wife's life more, for instance.
- needed more Pepper.
- had the novel-as-a-pre-screenplay feel. This isn't always a negative, but it did drag this one down a little for me. (That said, I'd see this movie.)