I think youll laugh a lot at what Lumet

I think youll laugh a lot at what Lumet has wrought here — but only well after the movie is over and the full scale of its perversity settles into your bones. The film has some powerful drama with Philip Seymour Hoffman turning in a superb performance. But the tone is relentlessly downbeat. Buy Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead Blu-ray He’s 83 years old and still has the vitality and lust to make a terrific heist-gone-bad movie! At a time when family movies are usurped by fantasies of sentimental feelgood, Lumets latest — the mangled-heist melodrama Before the Devil Knows Youre Dead — delivers a swift kick straight to the jewels. Last month, there were a couple of movies Michael Clayton, We Own the Night that recalled the 70s heyday of director Sidney Lumet. This month, we get the real deal.