We watch a movie like 'Heist' for the virtuosity of the execution, for the wit with which Mamet writes his way through the conventions, and the pleasure his actors take in chewing on his dialogue, in all of its repetition, shop talk, and artful profanity.

| Nov 12, 2016

Captivating David Mamet movie for grownups.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 24, 2010

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 2006

I couldn't believe any of it on any level, though it could be described as 'fun.'

| Nov 29, 2001

This cast is excellent. Heist, though, proves that enormously talented people can make a pretty lousy movie.

Full Review | Nov 27, 2001

The movie is super fun, even if some of its tricks seem to strain credulity.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Nov 24, 2001

There's something offensive about how Mamet continues to win praise as a serious filmmaker with such a joyless picture, a picture that -- intentionally -- gives the audience so little.

| Nov 16, 2001

Mamet's cerebral thriller is a joy to watch -- this is easily the director's toughest, grittiest drama to date.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 12, 2001

It's 99 and 44/100% pure Mamet all the way.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 11, 2001

David Mamet's films regurgitate every clever quip he's collected on bar napkins throughout the years.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 9, 2001

A perfectly pleasurable ride.

| Nov 9, 2001

A minor work by a major guy.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 9, 2001

David Mamet drives us crazy with a characteristically convoluted caper film that's a lot more about attitude and sleight of hand than it is about action. Mischievous, but you really have to go with the flow.

Full Review | Nov 9, 2001

A hard-boiled winner.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 9, 2001

Full of action and suspense, Heist is above all a gratifyingly adult entertainment.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Nov 9, 2001

There are dialogue-driven scenes in this movie that will blow you away -- nobody writes like Mamet at the top of his game.

| Nov 9, 2001

Essentially a genre piece overdecorated with phrases, quirks and narrative slipknots with a mannered look-at-me cleverness.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 9, 2001

If it piles on more psychological fake-outs than is safe in a setup this size -- well, at least it's got that talk, that language, that thing Mamet does that is at this point as identifiable as the cadences of the Bard.

| Original Score: B | Nov 9, 2001

Rare for Mamet, that talk here sometimes comes off as strained and awkward, or as a slightly highbrow variation on the usual hackneyed bon mots of generic action films.

| Nov 9, 2001

Once you recognize that each new development is nothing more than a prelude to another con, any sense of tension is moot.

| Nov 9, 2001