Top 10 Movies (Richard Schickel)

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#3. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
It's the year of Philip Seymour Hoffman three great and wildly disparate performances in the widest imaginable variety of contexts (see #7). In Sidney Lumet's darkly comic film he plans the heist of his own Mom and Pop's jewelry store, which turns out not to be quite the masterstroke he had in mind. At one level the movie is a wonderfully intricate exploration of family dysfunction. At another, it's a coolly controlled examination of increasingly insane criminal ineptitude. Either way you look at, this is a hypnotizing film from one of our great masters.

The Fantastic World of Ray Harryhausen
Thai Opposition Protests Heat Up
Electric Cars at the Paris Auto Show
The Last of the Tasmanian Devils (and Other Critters)
Photos: Francis Bacon at London's Tate Gallery
Robert Redford Remembers Paul Newman
'Tis the Season of Six-Inch Stilettos
Tuberculosis: An Ancient Disease Continues to Thrive
Rachel Getting Married, Demme Getting Messy
America's Underwater Junkyard