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Doc’s a ‘Smash’

The jewel robbers known as the Pink Panthers may have staged one of history’s most spectacular heists — $136 million from Cannes’ fabled Carlton Hotel — the very week that Havana Marking’s documentary about the gang hits theaters. The movie is fascinating when Marking interviews the pursuing cops and two actual Panthers — a beautiful woman who cases the joints, and an actual robber. A digression about the politics of their home turf in the former Yugoslavia is mostly a distraction from the Panthers’ precision and jaw dropping nerve. The characters are so flashy that you can cast the Hollywood adaptation in your head while you watch. (1 hr 30) NR (some violent images, profanity).