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 Michael Mann didn't invent the grunge heist thriller, but it's fair to say the Chicago-born auteur introduced a turn-of-the-century romanticism to the ingenious crime plot about solitary men with strict codes that nearly everyone in adjacent milieu has attempted to emulate, intentionally or not, ever since De Niro and Pacino first sat down opposite each other to ponder their desolate male longing. Bart Layton's "Crime 101" appears to be no different, hot on the heels of one of Mann's most successful descendants: Christian Gudegast's "Cave of Thieves" duology.  But as any competent criminal knows, appearances can be deceiving. …Not so much in this case, since Layton's take on Mann is as straightforward as you'd expect, including some of the iconic filmmaker's longtime collaborators in key roles. However, what "Crime 101" loses in the novelty of a genius determined to outwit the law, it gains in the absorbed execution of a co...