Heist movies are the best movies.
This is an irrefutable fact.
Stories about a group of people coming together and devising a plan to steal money, jewels, art, or anything of value from a secure location give you everything you could want.
They’re about interpersonal relationships, people being good at their jobs, sticking it to the powerful, and they’re always filled with delightful complications and twists.
In terms of big screen entertainments, they truly are the ideal genre, and no one is better at making them than Steven Soderbergh.Of course, the crowning jewel of his heist oeuvre is the “Ocean’s” trilogy, a star-studded triptych of top-shelf Hollywood entertainment that I could watch at any time.
I even rewatched “Ocean’s Eleven” two days before I even knew I would be writing this.
Those films don’t make up the entirety of the heist section of his filmography, though.
He came back…
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