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Just… no.įeaturing an all-star cast which includes Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman, this is a movie about four magicians (Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher, and Dave Franco) who team up to rob banks. And also, for a movie that’s supposed to be propelled by so much girl power, there’s a really silly subplot all about getting revenge on Sandra Bullock’s ex, Richard Armitage.
(Hey, if you want to make a movie calling out how Western museums justify looting and inhumane mining practices, I’m here for it, but Ocean’s Eight is not that smart.) It’s boring. Robbing museums is kind of off-limits in these movies.
Which is not the same as robbing casinos owned by tycoons, my friends. They steal a priceless Cartier necklace that they’ve managed to get on loan for the event, and then all the historic jewelry on exhibit in the galleries.
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The all-women Ocean-franchise reboot, Ocean’s Eight is a disaster, a heist movie full of squandered talent (Sandra Bullock! Cate Blanchett! Rihanna! Anne Hathaway! Awkwafina! Mindy Kaling! Helena Bonham Carter! Sarah Paulson! I’m irate!) that does nothing original and also tries to be way too contemporary, and, dare I say, feminine with its choice of target: the group robs the Met Gala. So, without further ado, let’s blow this popsicle stand. Partially because heists are often too difficult for one person to handle, and partially because the point of the heist is rounding up a crew of motley, misfit criminal savants with disparate skills and connections. Most importantly, heist movies frequently feature ensemble casts-these are often movies about working together as team, and splitting the prize. Also, just to warn you, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is not on this list. If the movie is mostly about some element surrounding a failed heist, like The Usual Suspects, or uses the setting of the failed heist to tell another kind of story, like Dog Day Afternoon or Goodfellas, it’s not on this list. A movie about a failed heist is a certified heist movie if the “heist” part is the main part. Indeed, many heist movies are also about failed heists, which begs some further clarification. Heists are action-packed, serious, and while they can be fun and there will certainly be moments of comic relief, these films are frequently on the darker side.
In case you’re wondering, although we will get to this later, the dictionary defines “ Caper” as an “amusing movie or story about… an illegal or questionable act or escapade” which is not necessarily limited to a robbery but probably is a robbery. Indeed, Merriam-Webster defines “heist” as a straight-up robbery. But “heists” have to play the weightiest roles in their films a movie in which there are, say, a whole slew of bank robberies, but the whole thing is ultimately about the relationships between fathers and sons, is not a heist movie (in case anyone remembers The Place Beyond the Pines and thinks it belongs on this list, which it doesn’t).Īnd actually, I should just explain now why you won’t see The Sting or Hustlers on this list: a heist isn’t a con, either, even if it’s a Big Con.
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Okay, so what IS a heist movie? Good question! It’s a movie whose plot and theme centers around a large heist, or a series of heists. We will be releasing an accompanying list of the Best Capers shortly after this one, so if you don’t see a film with a great heist in it, keep your shirts on, because it’s probably on the other list. I’d like to make this distinction at the outset because, also, some movies which seem to centrally feature heists are not actually “heist films,” but capers, which are ultimately their own genre, despite many similarities. I’d like to get one thing out of the way right at the beginning… this is a list ranking “heist movies,” not the heists that are in movies or movies that have heists in them (if it were, we’d include the opening of the original The In-Laws, where the big magnet on the crane picks the armored car up off the road and hauls it away to be raided).
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