'Caught Stealing' Review: A Wild and Bloody Ride Through Late '90s New York City

Aug 27, 2025 - 14:12

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'Caught Stealing' Review: A Wild and Bloody Ride Through Late '90s New York City

Caught Stealing takes a wild and murderous ride through late '90s New York City as a former baseball player pays a steep price for cat-sitting. Acclaimed crime novelist Charlie Huston adapts his first "Henry Thompson" novel for the big screen, with Darren Aronofsky behind the camera and Austin Butler as the hapless protagonist. Butler's role here is pretty much to serve as a human punching bag while a cast of Hollywood stalwarts chew up the screen in truly distinct supporting roles. There's no shortage of bloody and entertaining twists, but the narrative fails the logic test with significant plot holes and completely implausible reactions to harrowing violence. That being said, Aronofsky does succeed in capturing a unique time period and setting before America's greatest skyline was forever changed.