Family, betrayal, high stakes, and really, really bad choices. BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU'RE DEAD would make Shakespeare proud. In Lumet’s final feature film before his death in 2011, Andy (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and his younger brother Hank (Ethan Hawke) are both in tight spots. Andy is sinking deeper into debt and drug addiction, and Hank is woefully behind on child support. For some quick cash, they hatch a plan to commit a “victimless crime”: rob their parents Charles and Annette’s (Albert Finney, Rosemary Harris) jewelry store. Things do not go as planned. Told non-linearly, the dread-soaked puzzle pieces of this gritty crime drama are seen from the perspective of Andy, Hank, and Charles on the days leading up to and following the botched crime. Tension ratchets as the runtime ticks by (when Michael Shannon appears as a heavy looking for a payout you know things have turned from bad to worse), and each man spirals further into despair. As Lumet once said, “One of the automatic things about drama is family.” Here, with his last film, Lumet crafts a stunner that will make your tense Thanksgiving dinners look like a walk in the park.