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Rififi(Du rififi chez les hommes)

Out of prison after a five-year stretch, jewel thief Tony discovers that his old girlfriend Mado has become the lover of local gangster Pierre Grutter. Disillusioned, Tony expands a minor smash-and-grab his friend Jo offers him into a full-scale jewel heist. He and his crew appear to get away clean, unaware that all their lives are at stake…
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Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt

Among the picture's many surprises is a superb robbery scene filmed in a near-total silence that contrasts exhilaratingly with the noisy flamboyance of more recent films in this venerable genre.
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Boston Globe by Jay Carr

It's terse, atmospheric, fatalistic, with vertiginous camera angles and edits offsetting its gray documentary flatness.
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Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum

The opening half-hour--the burglary of a jewelry store, filmed in meticulous detail--is as good as its inspiration in The Asphalt Jungle, but the film turns moralistic and sour in the last half, when the thieves fall out.
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Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan

One of the great crime thrillers, the benchmark all succeeding heist films have been measured against, it's no musty museum piece but a driving, compelling piece of work, redolent of the air of human frailty and fatalistic doom.
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Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington

No matter how many heists you've seen, how many gangs you've watched fall apart or how many aging crooks you've seen walk up a mean street to a violent destiny, Rififi never loses its ruthless grace and force.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer by William Arnold

The granddaddy of all caper/heist movies. The work that defined the genre for the subsequent four decades of filmmakers, none of whom was able to surpass it for style or suspense.

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