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Caught Stealing Reviewed: Style Over Substance, Soundtrack Debated, And A Nihilistic Finish

Caught Stealing Reviewed: Style Over Substance, Soundtrack Debated, And A Nihilistic Finish

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We rate Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing a clean three, then pull apart why it moves fast but leaves a faint aftertaste. The cast delivers competence, the camera delivers polish, and the story leans on old tropes that drain the emotion it tries to spark.

• rating the film across acting, cinematography, soundtrack, story, rewatchability
• Austin Butler’s strengths in stylized roles versus interior drama
• Matt Smith’s scene-stealing energy and Regina King’s dialed-up cop
• trailer shots versus cinematic surprises in set pieces
• Guy Ritchie echoes in pacing and needle drops
• the fridging trope and why it blunts character stakes
• nihilistic ending and symbolic accountability
• how chaos films earn meaning when choices drive consequences
• our fixes: go full absurdist, or deepen moral cost
• a final consensus at three out of five


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