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Caught Stealing: Come For the ’90s New York Nostalgia, Stay For the Cat

Caught Stealing: Come For the ’90s New York Nostalgia, Stay For the Cat

By Chris Knight

ReviewJim SlotekAugust 29, 2025Caught Stealing, 1990s, 1990s New York, New York City, Darren Aronofsky, Austin Butler, Regina King, Tonic the Cat, Zoe Kravitz, Crime, Drama, Liev Schreiber, Carole Kane, Griffin DunneComment

Going In: Sharp New Crime Dramedy Plays Like an 1980s Classic Unearthed

Going In: Sharp New Crime Dramedy Plays Like an 1980s Classic Unearthed

By Chris Knight

ReviewJim SlotekDecember 21, 2023Going In, Evan Rissi, Ira Goldman, Victor D.S. Man, Canadian feature debut, Toronto, 1980s, Crime, Drama, ComedyComment

The First Purge: Franchise prequel explains it all away as a dubious Trump-era race war

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekJuly 4, 2018The Purge, Trump, Dystopian fiction, Race issues, Crime, Marisa Tomei, Attack The Block, Attack the Block

Den of Thieves: 'Genius' bank robbers, rogue cops and implausible deniability

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekJanuary 18, 2018Crime, Heist movies, Gerard Butler, LAPD movies, Los Angeles, Bank robberies, O'Shea Jackson Jr.

The Snowman ruined both snow and Michael Fassbender for me

By Karen Gordon

ReviewJim SlotekOctober 19, 2017Crime, Noir, Norway, Tomas Alfredson, Jo Nesbo, Michael Fessbender

Original-Cin interview: Michael Fassbender learns to ski on The Snowman

By Bonnie Laufer

InterviewJim SlotekOctober 17, 2017Crime, Author Jo Nesbo, Norway, Michael Fassbender, Murder mystery

Baby Driver: Set the Brain on 'Stun' and Have Fun

By Kim Hughes

ReviewJim SlotekJune 28, 2017Crime, Car chases