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Thief (1981) Dir. Michael Mann Released in theaters 45 years ago today, Thief remains one of the greatest neo-noir heist thrillers ever made. It was Michael Mann’s feature debut, though he’d already spent years working in television, many of the film’s visual ideas had been developing in him for...

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