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American Animals

2018

Bart Layton

Evan Peters, Blake Jenner, Barry Keoghan, Jared Abrahamson ...

6.2

3,463

Drama. Thriller Four young men mistake their lives for a movie and attempt one of the most audacious heists in U.S. history.

	Author	Review
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"Layton employs the contents of his own large bag of tricks to tell a tale both engrossing and grotesque (...) The basic story is bizarre enough to arrest one's interest from the outset"	POS
United States	Guy Lodge Variety	"Wildly entertaining (...) The results are sensational: a riveting college-boy crime caper (...) Smart, skittering, brilliantly constructed"	POS
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"A thriller that works too hard to sell its structure, and not hard enough to justify its story (...) 'American Animals' is fiercely entertaining from start to finish"	NEU
United Kingdom	Fionnuala Halligan Screendaily	"A supremely-crafted doc/fiction hybrid which is genuinely innovative, pleasingly entertaining and deliciously more than the sum of its parts."	POS
United States	Jordan Ruimy The Playlist	"The random cuts into the non-fiction, talking-head realm throughout the film is unnecessary and abrupt (...) [It] doesn’t bring anything new to the tired heist genre."	NEG
United States	Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"It’s a film that feels thrilling at times in the way it breaks traditional narrative/documentary form, but that’s not enough to get past its many missteps, including a story that ultimately rings shockingly hollow."	NEU
United States	Justin Chang Los Angeles Times	"A stylish and compelling account of a 2004 incident at Transylvania University in Lexington, Ky (...) An absorbingly multi-faceted portrait"	POS

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