Darren Aronofsky Sorta Gets His Groove Back with Austin Butler in 'Caught Stealing'

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As a righting of the ship after his disastrous and inexplicably lauded The Whale —we all love Brendan Fraser and we’re all glad he’s working again but that’s an Oscar win that felt curdled even before his name was announced—Darren Aronofsky’s atypically comic crime-caper Caught Stealing does what it should and needs to do. It cleanses the palette. It’s nimble and quick and just nasty enough, without any (well without much , let’s say that) of the leaden dourness that the Requiem For a Dream and Black Swan filmmaker had allowed to seize control of his recent work. One doubts this will end up being anyone’s favorite Aronofsky film when the dust settles on his career, b

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