etc.

I have to come out and make a bold statement here: the heist film just might be my favourite type of film. Judging from the fact that Heat and The Usual Suspects are two of my favourite movies ever (we all have them — the kind we can’t turn off every time they’re on cable. I mean Every Time), this is not an unfair statement. The Good Thief is, as you might have gathered, a heist film. Nolte plays a heist-guy-junkie down on his luck in Monte Carlo when the proverbial score-he-can’t-pass-up comes his way (formulaic, I know, but it works). It’s clever and there is, of course, a surprise-ending, and even though the acting tends to be schmaltzy at times, it had me from the opening credits. I’m a sucker for clever plot twists, they get me every time (I mean Every Time).