2018 · crime · drama · heist
American Animals
Directed by Bart Layton1h 57m2018
Lexington, Kentucky, 2004. Four young men attempt to execute one of the most audacious art heists in the history of the United States.
Our read: American Animals (2018) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive crime · drama · heist entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured crime / drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
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