Janine's sons (played by Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton, Sullivan Stapleton and Luke Ford) are
career criminals whose lives are increasingly under treat from a group of vengeful and trigger - happy detectives.
Not exact matches
Edward G. Robinson plays the mastermind of the job, Theo Wilkins, a once - respected scientist
whose career foundered after serving time for theft, and Rod Steiger plays his loyal friend, partner, and right hand Paul Mason, a sophisticated
career criminal brought over by Theo to run the untrustworthy crew.
Figuring that by now viewers have become jaded with the predictable, cross double - cross triple - cross trajectory of your average con film, «Matchstick Men» also offers a psychological profile of a conflicted, conscience - plagued
career criminal, and throws a credible family drama into the mix for good measure — all of which makes for a surprisingly substantial film
whose many facets leave you with plenty more to digest after the final credits have rolled than just who did what to whom and how (although it certainly has that too).
In a
career spanning 35 years, Ms. Rosler,
whose disdain for the normal rites of passage from galleries to collectors to museums struck many as indeed
criminal, has clung tenaciously to a very personal art that refuses to separate aesthetics from politics.