If you want to talk about crime, talk to Bart Layton, who built his entire career around us. Specialized in docudrama, Crime 101 is his first incursion in pure narrative. And, without spoiling anything, we hope not the last. The film has been at the cinema since 12 February 2025, distributed by Eagle Pictures.
Crime 101: caricati a molla
Mike Davis would be a legendary thief: accurate, non-violent, infallible. No one knows of his existence: Mike is a ghost, committed to crime until he has reached the figure that will make him feel safe. The only one who suspects something is Detective Lubesnick, a cop who has lost his spark but does not want to put the criminals in. Sharon is also totally dedicated to her work: selling insurance policies to the super wealthy.
Contrary to Mike, however, the work was not as good with her: used by a company that is now ready to throw it away, it is a duster ready to burst. Ormon is a young criminal, a son of art with everything to prove. The lives of the four will meet and fight around a mountain of diamonds, a twist that could convince anyone to break every rule.
Una domanda scomoda
Inhale, exhale, let go of all the things you think is “correct” thinking and responding with sincerity: does money make happiness? To be a cinematographic genre in which each film is built around some form of mallops, the heist movie usually does not think particularly about money: money is mostly a MacGuffin, a narrative expedient, a reward with which to swallow our protagonists and convince them to throw themselves in their 90 minutes of recognition, pursuits, shootings and plans that work as Swiss watches.
Crime 101, however, does this question if it does. Money is not only a motivating factor, but a constant thought for all its protagonists, an invisible mountain that overpowers them and forces them to live their lives in its shadow. The fact that the willingness to ask this question is the salient aspect of Crime 101 does not mean that the film is weak in its own kind, indeed. What we have in front is a heist movie very little canon but with undeniable quality, kinetic, hypnotic and beautifully recited — Barry Keoghan manages to give us an interpretation out of the lines almost only with eyes and even Chris Hemsworth almost convinces us — and perfect to be enjoyed on the big screen.
Il cast
Chris Hemsworth is Mike Davis, a meticulous and infallible thief. Halle Berry is Sharon, a high-class insurer with a talent to read people, while Mark Ruffalo is Detective Lubesnick, the only one who believes in the existence of the imaginative “Rapinator of 101” and Sharon’s yoga companion. Monica Barbaro is Maya, a girl who swabs Mike’s car and heart, while Nick Nolte is Money, his old business partner, and Barry Keoghan is Ormon, the new lever of Los Angeles’s criminal undergrowth.
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