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- Critics Consensus It may not boast an original plot, but Set It Off is a satisfying, socially conscious heist film thanks largely to fine performances from its leads.
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May 7, 2020 · In my deeply humble opinion, Set It Off is the best, most affecting heist film ever made. You can keep your Oceans and your Jobs ( Italian, Bank ), your endlessly adapted Bonnies and Clydes.
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- Casting and Cast Chemistry
- Historical Context
- The Black, Female Working Class
There’s no way a movie like Set It Off works without a certain caliber of actors coming together to make it believable. Screenwriter Takashi Bufford originally wrote the film with Jada Pinkett-Smith (who plays Stony) and Queen Latifah (who plays Cleo) in mind. And as fate would have it, the two were already good friends (and have been so for over t...
Set It Off is a perfect time capsule. It’s a film about the ’90s that takes place in the ’90s. No rose-colored glasses are walking you through what is but a memory of the decade. Director F. Gary Gray, an Los Angeles denizen, places you within it and forces you to engage with its trappings. Set in Los Angeles during the mid-1990s, the film was rele...
The film goes out of its way to address the plight of specifically poor black women. While terms like “Working Class” and “Blue Collar” are often reserved for a specific type of American — usually white, usually male — Set It Off extends these to black women and seeks to capture their experiences in an incredibly empathetic way. At the time, Set It...
Overall, I liked it. It had a good soundtrack. It wasn’t your typical heist or “hood” movie. I felt they needed to flesh out the relationships between the women better. Anyone else see it and have thoughts? What do you think happened to Stony? Where did she go?
Set It Off transcends and rewrites the classic heist movie through an all-female, all-black group of friends and their love for one another ... it is ultimately a tale of...
I always liked this genre of film, there's a lot of good heist films out there like: Heat, Thief, The Town, Point Break, Set it Off, Dead Presidents, Dog Day Afternoon etc., which are all my favorites but you also have heist films like the Ocean's 11 films & the F&F films as well, what are your favorite heist films?
2 days ago · Critics Consensus: It may not boast an original plot, but Set It Off is a satisfying, socially conscious heist film thanks largely to fine performances from its leads. Synopsis: After...
It may not boast an original plot, but Set It Off is a satisfying, socially conscious heist film thanks largely to fine performances from its leads. Read Critics Reviews
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