Max and the Junkmen (1971)
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  • Summary: Never before released in U.S. theaters, Claude Sautet’s crime drama about Max, a Paris detective hellbent on justice at any cost after watching one too many wily criminals slip through his fingers. Following a chance encounter with Abel, an Army buddy now working as a scrap collector (most of whose “scrap” just happens to be stolen), Max decides to lure Abel and his gang into committing a bank robbery ... so that he can then catch them red-handed. So Max poses as a wealthy banker and begins a series of illicit rendezvous with the high-class prostitute Lily, who happens to be Abel’s girlfriend, carefully dropping hints about a bank that’s just waiting to be knocked over. But there’s one thing the cold-hearted Max doesn’t factor into his diabolical scheme: the possibility of falling in love. (Film Society Lincoln Center)… Expand

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  1. Slant Magazine
    Reviewed by: Jaime N. Christley
    Aug 7, 2012
    88
    Regarding Michel Piccoli's Max, Claude Sautet's film resists judgment, neither condoning nor signposting the despicable nature of his choices.
  2. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: Stephen Garrett
    Aug 7, 2012
    80
    The deep cynicism would be depressing if it weren't so riveting.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: A.O. Scott
    Aug 9, 2012
    80
    Max et les Ferrailleurs, adapted from a novel by Claude Néron, has the matter-of-fact look and careful pace of a precinct-house procedural.

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