The Chicago International Film Festival opens Thursday night at the Chicago Theatre with David Mamet’s “Heist,” followed by a gala dinner honoring Faye Dunaway. To help guide readers through the ...

David Mamet’s “Heist” is the thinking person’s caper flick, with its endlessly clever plotting revealing character under the utmost pressure. Mamet explores the limits of trust and loyalty and also ...

Running time: 107 minutes. Rated R (profanity, violence). At the Empire, the Lincoln Square, the Park and 86th Street, others. OVERFLOWING with the year’s sharpest one-liners and top-drawer actors, ...

Cinematically, David Mamet is first, a wordsmith, and second, a director. His movies, more often than not, feature unbelievable sequences of dialogue packaged around subtly textured plots in what are ...

Veteran con artist and heist merchant Joe Moore (Hackman) is ready to retire. He's got a new life in South America just waiting for him. There's only one problem: his fence (DeVito) is blackmailing ...

With the film's October 26th release on the horizon, Warner Brothers now sparks momentum for Heist, writer-director David Mamet's (State & Main) latest foray into film noir. Leading the cast of ...

*** Snatch (Sony, 103 minutes, R, priced for rental, DVD available): A heist picture set mainly in England, Snatch was written and directed by Guy Ritchie. That name ought to ring a bell because ...

“Thirteen” hit theaters in 2007, and brought on Ellen Barkin and Al Pacino, while spin-off “Ocean’s Eight” premiered in 2018 ...

… what if we just gave the 2024 Best Picture Oscar to the 2001 Steven Soderbergh heist film Ocean’s Eleven? What if we did that? It is something that merits consideration. Probably. Maybe. I am going ...

Federal prosecutors in Milwaukee finally have custody of the Swiss man they say masterminded the 2001 heist of a rare sports car he sold 14 years later for $7.6 million, setting off a legal fight over ...