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  2. 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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    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...

  3. 70% Tomatometer 37 Reviews. Fresh audience score. 89% Audience Score 50,000+ Ratings. After being fired from her job as a bank teller, Frankie (Vivica A. Fox) begins working at a janitorial ...

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  4. I did my own double feature: Slumdog Millionaire and then Set It OffI'm happy to say this was one of the best movie nights of my life. This film is excellent. I didn't expect it to be so dark, and I found the pacing wonderful (I watched the director's cut.)

  5. Nov 7, 2016 · By Mecca Jamilah Sullivan. November 7, 2016. / 9:37 AM. (Photo: New Line Cinema/Getty Images) “What’s the procedure when you have a gun to your head?” I’d be hard pressed to choose the most...

  6. Latoya Austin Cinerama Film. 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...

  7. Friends rob banks in '90s adventure; violence, cursing. Read Common Sense Media's Set It Off review, age rating, and parents guide.

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