Darren Aronofsky’s crime caper ‘Caught Stealing’ an affectionate ode to ’90s New York

Brit punk Russ (Matt Smith), left, convinces his neighbor Hank (Austin Butler) to join him in some illegal activities in “Caught Stealing.” Courtesy of Sony Pictures Entertainment

“ Caught Stealing” — 3 stars

Darren Aronofsky has already made several indelibly New York movies. But lovable as was the subterranean monochrome paranoia of “Pi” and charming as we all consider the pupil-dilating tragedy of his bleak Brighton Beach-set “Requiem for a Dream,” Aronofsky’s latest, “ Caught Stealing,” is easily the director’s most affectionate portrait of his hometown.

That, too, may be a funny way to describe a movie where bodies get brutalized, corpses accumulate and even the cat comes away with a limp. But “Caught Stealing,” a terrific caper starring Austin Butler as a Lower East Side ma