Denzel's greatest roles

"Devil in a Blue Dress" (1995)

There’s just something about Denzel and detectives—he’s played investigators and law enforcement officers even more often than he’s played real people. And his crowning achievement was this adaptation of Walter Mosley’s crime novel. It deserved to kick off a franchise of movies featuring Washington as private detective Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins, but at least one is better than none.