AV Club review of Killing Them Softly which has the 2008 financial crisis in the background. One commenter writes:

Cogan's Trade (the novel this movie is based on) is perhaps my favorite crime novel -- only Hammett's Red Harvest comes close. But I'm concerned about anyone adapting that 70s masterpiece into a 2012 state-of-America David Simony thinkpiece. I'll probably just queue up The Friends of Eddie Coyle again and watch that instead.

 I loved the Wire so will probably check it out.