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...atone, he made his latest picture a simplistic heist blockbuster that is sure to connect with audiences. Throwing out his classy suits, ultra fancy gadgets, and razor, he opts for a more disarming scruffy man’s man look...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Film Reviews | 11/12/2004 | See Source »

Sunset begins with two master thieves, Max Burdett (Brosnan) and the luscious Lola Cirillo (Salma Hayek), completing the heist of a one-of-a-kind diamond and then jetting to a tropical island paradise to enjoy their retirement. Unbeknownst to them, FBI agent Stanley Lloyd (Woody Harrelson), still simmering from his botched attempt to prevent their robbery, has tracked them down. He informs them that he knows they have selected the island as part of a plot to steal another rare diamond and declares that he will catch them in the act. That Agent Lloyd actually believes that this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Film Reviews | 11/12/2004 | See Source »

...gangster alights in a small town, meaning, somewhat reluctantly, to rob its bank. He takes a room at a reclusive schoolteacher's house. The recluse, naturally, becomes more gung-ho about the heist than does the professional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Talk of Love and Taxes | 9/6/2004 | See Source »

...been stolen just days earlier from atop the castle of The Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. Editors at The Harvard Crimson, the campus daily and longtime rival of the Lampoon, immediately claimed responsibility for the heist...

Author: By Zachary M. Seward, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lampoon, Crimson Face Off in Intra-Collegiate Rivalry | 6/7/2004 | See Source »

...Hong Kong-based director Johnnie To's Breaking News. A melodramatic critique of the media's connivance in glamorizing criminals (it's like a Survivor series with no survivors), the movie boasts a madly complex heist scene, captured in one incredibly fluid five-minute shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Cannes, Asia's star shines | 5/31/2004 | See Source »

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