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With the release of the new movie Tuner, which is a terrific film and honestly one of the best movies of the year, I thought it would be fun to go back and talk about heist movies in general and specifically one of my favorite things that happens in heist movies: safe-cracking scenes. Now Tuner is a really interesting combination of character study, suspense thriller, and caper movie. It’s about this once-brilliant musical prodigy who’s now reduced to tuning pianos for a livi

[Get the exclusive video version of these weekly reviews each Friday by becoming a paid subscriber!] My Film Critic pants are quite fetching; they are on, pressed, and ironed. I'm ready to review five new movies in this week's capsule (short) movie reviews for Friday, May 29th, 2026. 1) BACKROOMS I didn’t know much about the Backrooms web series before seeing this movie. I had heard about it in passing. I knew it was a YouTube thing, a Creepypasta thing, part of this whole Li