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The final film in our mini-season of heist film’s is Steve McQueen’s 2018 movie WIDOWS.

Our penultimate heist film is the 2004 teen movie THE PERFECT SCORE. We talk about how this film doesn’t take itself too seriously, and doesn’t deserve the panning it got from the critics, as well as the idea that this is a mash-up of the heist film genre with teen films about progress of various kinds.

Our film this time is Guy Ritchie’s 1998 break-out film, which spawned a host of not-always-successful imitators — even among the work of Ritchie himself!

This week, we focus on a doubly discredited (director and star) but undeniably classic film: THE USUAL SUSPECTS.

This week’s film is an early one from Michael Mann, king of the crime genre: THIEF.

This week’s film is the 1973 multiple-Oscar-winning classic THE STING.

This week, our focus turns to the 1969 classic THE ITALIAN JOB.

This week we discuss the landmark historical film BONNIE AND CLYDE. Our reviews are followed by discussions about how this film was a cultural jumping-off point, and how it’s filled with examples of iconoclastically pushing back against society

This week we tackle the original OCEAN’S ELEVEN — over 40 years before the Soderbergh re-make, and set in a very different time.

This week, we begin our heist movies mini-season with the 1955 French film noir RIFIFI.