movie review

CAUGHT STEALING

Running time: 107 minutes. Rated R (strong violent content, pervasive language, some sexuality, drug use). Out Friday.

There is a nasty habit in Hollywood, and among movie critics, of allowing filmmakers to incessantly upchuck the same lame crime retreads.

They are blinded by cartoony underworld figures, seedy alleys, drugs and guns as they blithely overlook the lazy writing, painfully obvious plots, gratuitous violence and chase scenes as enlivening as a Metro-North commute.

All of these bruising exercises are nearly identical, except lately they’ve become both blander and more unpleasant than ever.

That’s especially true of “Caught Stealing,” an aimless schlep with delusions of grandeur starring “Elvis” actor Austin Butler as a Lower East Side bartender

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