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Spoiler-free premise
A botched robbery indicates a police informant, and the pressure mounts in the aftermath at a warehouse.
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After a diamond robbery fails, surviving criminals gather in a Los Angeles warehouse with one man badly wounded. Color-coded aliases and missing information intensify suspicion that a police informant was inside the crew from the beginning.
Why it belongs
Quentin Tarantino makes the unseen robbery less important than the warehouse aftermath, where nonlinear disclosure and volatile talk frame distrust as action.
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Tarantino withholds the failed robbery and confines its survivors to a warehouse, deploying nonlinear disclosure, shifting accusations, pop-radio interruptions, and volatile ensemble acting to make distrust—not the unseen crime—the central action.
Major award wins
No verified wins in this six-institution crosswalk.
Awards are reference metadata only · zero points in 40/40/20
Good for
Film Club
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Institutional reference ranks
Sight & Sound—IMDb Top 250104AFI 100—
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Great Cinema Master List scores
Greatness8.6
Engagement9.1
Ease8.9
English · R Narrative Feature Mood: Tense & Absorbing
