When a Plan Comes Together

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When a Plan Comes Together

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By Ben Elliott

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We love it when a plan comes together — or falls apart..

Those are really the only two options when it comes to heist movies. Either a group of thieves pulls off a clever, complex robbery where everything snaps into place (Inside Man, the Ocean’s films), or they put together a clever, complex plan that goes wrong and gets a lot of people killed (Heat, The Town)..

Two friends chasing floating legs in a red room from House, 1977

Now You See Me: Now You Don’t, 2025

Two films coming to The Triplex this week illustrate the full range of the genre: Ruben Fleischer’s Now You See Me: Now You Don’t follows a band of illusionists who set out to take down a corrupt billionaire with sleight of hand, while Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind tells the story of a suburban dad who risks his comfortable life by robbing his local art museum.

A young woman holding a severed head in House, 1977

The Mastermind, 2025

Both films find their own kind of joy in watching their protagonists put their plans into action. Now You See Me stretches the magic-trick-like reveal of successful heist movies to the extreme by making its heroes actual magicians, creating a breezy, fun-filled caper. Meanwhile, The Mastermind mines its humor from exploring the kind of ego it takes to believe you could pull something like this off in the first place — and the very real consequences when the plan falls apart.

It’s a double feature that shows just how diverse films within a genre can be. Whether building delightfully silly spectacle or introspective character study, both are delicately constructed houses of cards — holding us in suspense as we wait to see if they’ll finally collapse.

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Showtimes Nuremberg | 10:30AM Now You See Me: Now You Don't | 10:45AM, 1:30PM, 4:45PM, 8:00PM Wicked: For Good | 1:00PM, 2:00PM, 4:15PM, 5:15PM, 7:30PM, 8:30PM

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