Austin Butler’s Hat in ‘Caught Stealing’ Should Be Way Dirtier

Austin Butler’s Hat in ‘Caught Stealing’ Should Be Way Dirtier

If I step outside, I'm wearing one of several Texas Rangers baseball hats. Neither rain, nor sleet, nor lop-sided loss will keep me from doing so. Given their history of being absolute trash, it has mostly been a badge of... Read more...

Caught Stealing Is a Wild and Violent Romp

Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing sees the typically pretentious auteur shift gears toward fun and violence in late 1990s NYC. It’s a throwback to gritty 1970s filmmaking but set in the Giuliani era — the perfect setting for our downwardly mobile 2025. Still from Caught Stealing. (Columbia Pictures) As far as I can judge, the primary complaint about Darren Aronofsky’s generally well-reviewed — though not very popular — new film, Caught Stealin…

At The Movies: Caught Stealing • The Western Weekender

Verdict: 3/5 Right off the bat new crime comedy ‘Caught Stealing’ is a home run. Alright that’s enough of the baseball puns but I really did enjoy this movie. In 1998 Hank (Austin Butler), a former high school baseball player and bartender, lives in the Lower East Side in New York City. Hank’s dodgy neighbour Russ (Matt Smith) asks him to look after his cat Bud while he visits his father in London. Looking after a cat has never come with so much…

Movie Review: “Caught Stealing” - The Sun Times News

By Bob Garver             “Caught Stealing” is one of those twisty crime thrillers where it seems like the filmmakers cast as many interesting names as they could and then wrote the movie around using them all. For example, at no point did I feel it was necessary for the film to feature Matt Smith as a character with a 60’s U.K. punk rock aesthetic in this film set in New York in 1998 (itself an inexplicable choice). All the film needed was a ne…

Movie Review - Caught Stealing

By Bob Garver “Caught Stealing” is one of those twisty crime thrillers where it seems like the filmmakers cast as many interesting names as they could and then wrote the movie around using them all. For example, at no point did I feel it was necessary for the film to feature Matt Smith as a character with a 60’s