Friday Matinee: Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

August: Great Thrillers of the 21st Century

August 1 – Before the Devil Knows You're Dead [2007]: R, 117m

Andy (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a debt-ridden broker, needs some quick cash. He ropes his younger brother, Hank (Ethan Hawke), into a scheme to commit the perfect crime: to rob their parents' (Albert Finney, Rosemary Harris) jewelry store. The scheme goes horribly awry, and the family patriarch takes justice into his own hands, unaware that the criminals he is hunting are his own sons.

August 8  – Bullet Train [2022]: R, 126m

August 15 – Baby Driver [2017]: R, 113m

August 22 – A History of Violence [2005]: R, 96m

August 29 – Get Out [2017]: R, 104m