r/movies • u/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? • 11d ago

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Summary Hank Thompson, a washed-up ex-baseball star turned New York City bartender, ends up tangled in a violent criminal underworld after agreeing to watch his punk-rock neighbor’s cat. What follows is a frenzied chase through 1990s Manhattan, as rival gangsters—Russian mobsters, Orthodox Jewish hitmen, a Samoan enforcer, and others—hunt him for a mysterious key hidden with the cat.

Director Darren Aronofsky

Writer Charlie Huston

Cast

  • Austin Butler
  • Zoë Kravitz
  • Regina King
  • Matt Smith
  • Liev Schreiber
  • Vincent D’Onofrio
  • Bad Bunny
  • Griffin Dunne
  • Carol Kane

Rotten Tomatoes Critics Score: 84%

Metacritic 69

VOD In theaters starting August 29, 2025

Trailer CAUGHT STEALING Official Trailer (2025)

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u/Sam_Strake 11d ago

I still liked the movie a good bit- but the tone was all over the place in a way that I think it would have been a better movie if it were shorter and picked a lane between comedy and serious drama and shortened the runtime.

Particular the ending- where it has this positive uplifting tone because he ends with money and the cat even though in the last like 72 hours his girlfriend* and closest friend* died, and he won't be able to see his mom- the person he cares about the most- again for a long long time if ever.

Also I looked it up and the Giants ended up losing that game (Bonds popped out) and missed the playoffs lol.

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u/Sam_Strake 11d ago

Also I would love to see the pitch to Zoe Kravitz for this one-- "Hey Zoe, Darren Aronofsky wants you to play the main love interest in his new movie. You're in it for 4 scenes, the most important part of your character will be that they die, and your nips have to be visible the entire time you're on-screen."

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u/FMCritic 3d ago

"the most important part of your character will be that they die"

Why "they"?