If there's anything I miss in pop culture, it's the presence of ordinary movies. I don't mean blockbusters like Avatar or cultural events like Barbenheimer or Oscar contenders like One Battle After ...

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Chris Hemsworth delivering a literal crash course in his new crime thriller movie, Crime 101, which is coming to movie theaters this weekend. Written and directed by Bart Layton, Crime 101 is a film ...

Bart Layton’s “Crime 101” is a “Heat” pastiche that, even if it falls well shy of its Michael Mann blueprint, has some basic appeal going for it. Los Angeles crime movies are fun. Chris Hemsworth ...

‘Crime 101’ really wants to be Michael Mann’s ‘Heat’ (and maybe some of his ‘Thief’ as well). Not that there’s anything wrong with that; epic crime thrillers are few and far between these days, and ...

Crime 101 is so much more than a Heat knockoff, as many will try to attest. No, Bart Layton’s tense, thrilling, and soulful crime epic weaves a narrative that forces you under its spell, refusing to ...

Crime 101 opens in theaters on Feb. 13. A few minutes in to Crime 101, with the streets of Los Angeles whipping by, a tense, thudding soundtrack gnawing at you while carefully laid plans are set up ...

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Blatant Michael Mann imitations aside, Bart Layton's Los Angeles-set ensemble crime thriller is far from terrible — using the cinematic city setting and robust turns from Halle Berry and Mark Ruffalo ...