You wouldn’t expect Darren Aronofsky to make a slick crime movie, but that’s just what this entertaining, twisty and ultimately bloody caper is. Driven by Austin Butler ‘s magnetism and chiseled supporting turns from a gaggle of top-flight actors, Caught Stealing is the most overtly commercial film Aronofsky has ever made. That may not sound like much next to the dark psychology of Black Swan , arguably his best film. But even his most mainstream efforts, like The Whale , aren’t nearly as glossy and sleek as this, and he pulls it of beautifully.

Butler plays Hank, once a talented high-school baseball player whose realistic hopes of going pro were ended by an injury. Now he is aimless and tending bar in a grungy dive on New York’s Lower East Side in 1998, when gentrification ha

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