In American Animals, the traditional heist film genre is refreshingly twisted by taking a true-life story and combining it with fiction. Interviews of the men involved in the real crime provide a counterpoint with the dramatization of four hapless middle-class college boys who awkwardly plan to steal rare million-dollar books from the Kentucky University library. Whether wholly accurate or not, this film has been compared to Point Break and Fight Club. Rising actors Barry Keoghan (The Killing of A Sacred Deer), Evan Peters (X-Men), and Blake Jenner (The Edge of Seventeen) are shown planning their crime by watching films about robberies and calling each other Mr. Black, Mr. Pink, etc. Of course, what can go wrong does go wrong, and the lead-up to the robbery along with the pseudo getaway is infused with adrenaline, excitement, panic, and occasional bouts of absurdly funny shenanigans. It is hard to believe these characters are so unimaginably real. (CARL SPENCE)
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