US Edition‘Caught Stealing’ Review: Aronofsky Swings for Fun, and It’s an Odd Fit
Darren Aronofsky's crime thriller follows a former baseball prodigy entangled in a violent New York gangland war, blending dark humor with intense brutality.
- On Friday, Caught Stealing opens in US cinemas on August 29th, featuring gray payphone kiosks across Manhattan and Brooklyn that launch a 1990s-themed treasure hunt via a mechanical voice as part of Darren Aronofsky's tribute.
- Set in 1998 Lower East Side, Manhattan, Caught Stealing adapts Charlie Huston's novel with him writing the screenplay, while Darren Aronofsky sought a lighter tone than his usual dark films.
- After agreeing to cat-sit for neighbor Russ, Hank Thompson is chased by the Russian mob, police, and two Orthodox brothers, suffering severe injuries including losing a kidney.
- The MPAA rated Caught Stealing R for strong violent content and related elements, while its punkish soundtrack by Rob Simonsen and IDLES complements Aronofsky's accessible late-summer film.
- Nostalgic promotion underscores the movie’s retro 1990s identity, with Darren Aronofsky, director, offering an affectionate hometown portrait and Sony’s Columbia Pictures likely to stream it post-theatrical run.
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'Caught Stealing' review: Darren Aronofsky and Austin Butler… What are you doing here?
Darren Aronofsky is a filmmaker who's forged his career on big swings, like the mind-bending, black-and-white thriller Pi, the gnarly body-horror nightmare Black Swan, the biblical epic Noah, and the extravagant explosion of Christian mythology and general mayhem that was mother! So, it's genuinely shocking how tame Caught Stealing is. The New York-set crime comedy's biggest swing comes literally from a bat, wielded by a bland hero, played by an…
Hollywood Crime Film 'Caught Stealing' Fails to Impress - Real News Now
In the film industry, particularly in Hollywood, it has become commonplace for directors and screenwriters to recycle worn-out crime narratives. Critics and audiences alike have grown alarmingly accustomed to these frequently encountered clichés: the colorful mob bosses, the grimy backstreets, the abundance of narcotics and firearms, and the slavish adhesion to predictable plotlines, excessive violence, and tedious chase scenes. Each one of thes…
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Movie Review: In 'Caught Stealing,' a crime caper in '90s New York starring Austin Butler
Darren Aronofsky has already made several indelibly New York movies, his latest, “Caught Stealing,” is easily the director’s most affectionate portrait of his hometown, writes AP Film Writer Jake Coyle in his review. That may be a funny way to…
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‘Caught Stealing’ review: Aronofsky swings for fun, and it’s an odd fit
Watching “Caught Stealing,” you can’t help but wonder what attracted filmmaker Darren Aronofsky to the project. Sure, you figure he’d read and enjoyed the novel of the same name by Charlie Huston on which it’s based, and, yes, that happened nearly two decades ago, according to the production notes for the movie version sliding into theaters this week. But this relatively lightweight tale of a former high school baseball phenom-turned-bartender w…
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