True-life heist story 'American Animals' is one of summer's freshest and most entertaining films
by Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Jun 01, 2018
3 minutes
It begins with the usual heist film maneuvers: Watches are synchronized, license plates changed, disguises applied. But "American Animals" is not like other criminal stories, and the differences make it one of the summer's freshest, most entertaining films.
To begin with, the miscreants in this smart and lively based-on-fact drama are not case-hardened criminals of the "Asphalt Jungle" variety; they're a quartet of bored college kids looking for kicks and meaning in their lives
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