Darren Aronofsky’s 2025 movie Caught Stealing is a mixtape of sorts for the idiosyncratic filmmaker, a compilation of Aronofsky fixations doubling as a back-to-basics crime thriller. It feels like something he could have scraped together in the early days of his career — as plenty of reviews pointed out, the movie is actually set during those early days, unfolding in fall 1998, a few months after the release of Aronofsky’s feature debut Pi. Like Caught Stealing, Pi also features menacing Hasidic Jews and scenes near Manhattan’s Lower East Side.

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