The film also went on to win seven Academy Awards, including Best Writing, Best Director, and Best Picture.
Another non-traditional heist movie, The Usual Suspects (like Reservoir Dogs before it) utilizes an ensemble cast and a non-linear framing device in Kevin Spacey’s Verbal recounting the tale of the past few weeks to some police officers.
Though only Stanley Kubrick‘s second feature-length narrative film, The Killing, showed how adept he already was with a camera and with editing.
The film depicts both sides of the heist world with Al Pacino and Robert De Niro as the two sides of the coin.