The heist is competence porn with a body count of assumptions: a plan, a crew, and the pleasure of watching both meet reality. This tag collects reviews of heist films and what the genre teaches about plotting.
2020sKidnappers grab a twelve-year-old ballerina who turns out to be a centuries-old vampire. The film's clever structure borrows from the heist movie.
1990sRussell's 1999 Gulf War heist. Clooney, Wahlberg, Ice Cube, Spike Jonze.
1950sSterling Hayden, Sam Jaffe, brief Marilyn Monroe. The original ensemble heist film.
2000sJonathan Glazer's 2000 British crime debut. Ben Kingsley terrifying as Don Logan.
1970sSidney Lumet's 1975 Brooklyn bank heist. Attica, Wyoming, sweltering New York summer.
2010s
1990sJohn Frankenheimer's 1998 Cold War remnant action. Ronin is John Frankenheimer's 1998 American action thriller.
2000sSpike Lee's 2006 Manhattan bank heist. Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Build.
2000sSoderbergh's 2001 Rat Pack remake. Clooney, Pitt, Damon, Roberts, Gould.
1960sJules Dassin's 1964 Istanbul museum jewel heist. Peter Ustinov, Maximilian Schell.
1950sKubrick's 1956 racetrack robbery. Non-linear structure that became Tarantino's vocabulary.
1950sJules Dassin's 1955 French heist. Thirty-two-minute silent jewelry heist sequence.
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