Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

A few of you are potential film-makers of the future. If you are, go see Sidney Lumet's new film, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead as soon as you can. It is not the best film of the year -- not even the best film I saw this weekend, but it is the film you can learn the most about film-making, even screen writing, from. It is an almost perfect film -- and something only someone who has been making films for fifty years or so, like Lumet, could do.