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Thief

Thief (Violent Streets)

1981

Michael Mann

James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Willie Nelson, James Belushi ...

6.8

3,026

Thriller. Action After 11 years in prison, an ageing master safecracker (James Caan) decides to pull one more job before retiring to a quiet, peaceful life. However, the mob finds him much too valuable and refuses to let him retire, keeping him trapped in the life he so desperately wants to leave behind.

	Author	Review
United States	Ignatiy Vishnevetsky AV Club	"Michael Mann’s Thief is one of the most confident directorial debuts of its era, the product of an unprecedented amount of research and preparation."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"It's one of those films where you feel the authority right away: This movie knows its characters, knows its story, and knows exactly how it wants to tell us about them (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Variety Staff Variety	"A slick Chicago crime-drama with a well-developed sense of pathos"	POS
United States	Michael Blowen Boston Globe	"'Thief' looks like a good movie... But, in spite of director Michael Mann's authentic sets and a workmanlike performance by Caan, the film never crackles"	NEU
United States	Sheila Benson Los Angeles Times	"There is no respite from 'Thief'; it is bravura movie making."	POS
United States	Pauline Kael The New Yorker	"Grandiloquent masochism of the kind an adolescent boy might fantasize. With rain outside and and smoke inside, this Chicago-set movie is almost a parody of film noir."	NEG
United Kingdom	Geoff Andrew Time Out	"A philosophical thriller filled with modernist cool."	POS

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