Alex Rudolph's Best of 2022
by Alex Rudolph, Contributor
You always write these things having seen less than you’d like to have, but 2022 was an especially theater-free year for me.
by Alex Rudolph, Contributor
You always write these things having seen less than you’d like to have, but 2022 was an especially theater-free year for me.
by Matthew McCafferty, Staff Writer
Confident, cool and stylized to the perfect degree, Out of Sight might actually be Steven Soderbergh’s best heist movie.
Directed by Steven Soderbergh
by Rosalie Kicks!, Old Sport
Logan Lucky is your typical heist movie but with charisma.
As the story unfolded on screen, it was like I had seen it all before. Overall, I find heist flicks tend to be formulaic and typically go something like this: After being wronged in some way, Guy gets an idea for a heist. Guy assembles a crew of misfits. Guy reviews the plan with said crew with the help of dioramas and diagrams. Guy and team enact the plan. After the plan is completed, everything is then regurgitated back to us and thoroughly explained. Oh wait! Can’t forget about that monkey wrench though. There is always a trick up the guy’s sleeve that no one knew about or that unexpected surprise that could cause the entire scheme to go wrong. Miraculously the heist is completed and if there is a girl to be gotten, the guy gets her. The end.
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