Genre
Heist Films
The assembly of a crew, the plan, the execution, and the thing that goes wrong. Process is the entertainment; the money rarely matters.
Four textbook cases
Not the best four — the four that define the shape. Start anywhere.
Rififi
Jules Dassin · 1955
The Killing
Stanley Kubrick · 1956
Heat
Michael Mann · 1995
Ocean's Eleven
Steven Soderbergh · 2001
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