2016 · action · comedy · crime
Masterminds
Directed by Jared Hess1h 35m2016
A night guard at an armored car company in the Southern U.S. organizes one of the biggest bank heists in American history.
Our read: Masterminds (2016) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive action · comedy · crime entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, gentle action / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- gentle
- funny
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“You want a goofy true-crime heist where idiots steal millions and barely keep it together.”
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