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Glenn Lovell, San Jose Mercury News: For fans of The Sting and other classic cons, this will sound like jackpot time. For others, who prefer their capers less tidy or self-consciously clever, this exercise may carry all the excitement of a drugged mouse in a maze. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: Heist is Mamet's biggest and most accessible thriller to date, and if you've never seen any of his films, the movie will work its devilish magic. But for the initiated, Heist carries a whiff of disappointment. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: The cast is brilliant, the plotting ingenious, the dialogue incendiary. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: This cast is excellent. Heist, though, proves that enormously talented people can make a pretty lousy movie. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: A perfectly pleasurable ride. Read more
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: Heist lacks the smugness of Mr. Mamet's State and Main but never reaches the wit-quota of his The Spanish Prisoner and Wag the Dog. Even if it's not memorable Mamet, it's a largely intriguing movie. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: What Heist lacks in novelty it makes up for in solid entertainment. Read more
John Anderson, Newsday: 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. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Not awful but nowhere near as good as it should have been. Read more
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: Full of action and suspense, Heist is above all a gratifyingly adult entertainment. Read more
Paul Tatara, CNN.com: Once you recognize that each new development is nothing more than a prelude to another con, any sense of tension is moot. Read more
Steven Rosen, Denver Post: 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. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: 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. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Essentially a genre piece overdecorated with phrases, quirks and narrative slipknots with a mannered look-at-me cleverness. Read more
Eric B. Markiewicz, Houston Chronicle: There are dialogue-driven scenes in this movie that will blow you away -- nobody writes like Mamet at the top of his game. Read more
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Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: I couldn't believe any of it on any level, though it could be described as 'fun.' Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: It's consistently fun, occasionally funny, and will have viewers on the edges of their seats on more than one occasion. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Heist is the kind of caper movie that was made before special effects replaced wit, construction and intelligence. Read more
Charles Taylor, Salon.com: 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. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: A minor work by a major guy. Read more
David Rooney, Variety: While staccato dialogue and edgy confrontations have always been the wordsmith's forte, the precision-tooled mechanics of an elaborate crime caper have not, and the physical direction here could use some muscle. Read more
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: A neat, bouncy, minor-key crime procedural that shakes no rafters. Read more