Forget 'Heat,' This Forgotten Crime Thriller Pulls Off an Even More Ambitious Genre Trick

Heist films have been a dime a dozen in Hollywood for decades, right up through this year's well-received Crime 101. Few, though, manage to reach the dizzying heights scaled by directors like John Frankenheimer, Michael Mann, and William Friedkin; for every Ronin or Heat, there's a Triple Frontier or Triple 9. The 1990s proved fertile ground for the genre, though, and the Hughes Brothers' criminally underseen Dead Presidents is one of the very best.