Caught Stealing

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Caught Stealing

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2025,

1h 47m,

Mystery & Thriller/

Crime/

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Hank Thompson (Austin Butler) was a high-school baseball phenom who can't play anymore, but everything else is going okay. He's got a great girl (Zoë Kravitz), tends bar at a New York dive, and his favorite team is making an underdog run at the pennant. When his punk-rock neighbor Russ (Matt Smith) asks him to take care of his cat for a few days, Hank suddenly finds himself caught in the middle of a motley crew of threatening gangsters. They all want a piece of him; the problem is he has no idea why. As Hank attempts to evade their ever-tightening grip, he's got to use all his hustle to stay alive long enough to find out....

Critics Consensus

A freewheeling throwback, Caught Stealing splendidly showcases Austin Butler's movie star charisma while marking a surprisingly lighthearted gearshift for director Darren Aronofsky.

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Philip Concannon

Sight & Sound

Nov 4, 2025

It seems like Darren Aronofsky is finally having fun, and for a brisk 107 minutes, so are we.

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Udita Jhunjhunwala

Livemint

Oct 14, 2025

The film is brutal—filled with bad luck, questionable choices and broken bodies—but it’s also thrilling, propelled by Butler’s performance and Aronofsky’s compassion for the flawed.

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Wendy Ide

Observer (UK)

Oct 7, 2025

A picture with such a high body count is unlikely to be boring, but this is a lazily derivative throwback that appropriates ideas and plot points from numerous other movies (think Guy Ritchie’s After Hours). Caught Stealing indeed.

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Nicolás Medina

Montevideo Portal / Latido Beat

Aug 17, 2026

9/10

Baseball, as Yogi Berra used to say, "isn’t over until it’s over." Aronofsky seems to subscribe to that maxim: his characters never give up, even if all that awaits them is another blow, another out, another fall to the ground. [Full review in Spanish]

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Don Kaye

Moviefone

Jul 20, 2026

70/100

Caught Stealing is set in a reality that’s slightly off-kilter from ours, and while it’s not top-tier Aronofsky, it’s a welcome change of pace.

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Ned Lannamann

Willamette Week

Feb 28, 2026

With director Darren Aronofsky revisiting the seedy New York City milieu of his earliest and best films, Caught Stealing is mostly a jolly, hyperviolent romp that’s like Guy Ritchie’s Snatch set in a pre-Strokes Lower East Side.

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Synopsis

Hank Thompson (Austin Butler) was a high-school baseball phenom who can't play anymore, but everything else is going okay. He's got a great girl (Zoë Kravitz), tends bar at a New York dive, and his favorite team is making an underdog run at the pennant. When his punk-rock neighbor Russ (Matt Smith) asks him to take care of his cat for a few days, Hank suddenly finds himself caught in the middle of a motley crew of threatening gangsters. They all want a piece of him; the problem is he has no idea why. As Hank attempts to evade their ever-tightening grip, he's got to use all his hustle to stay alive long enough to find out....

Director: Darren Aronofsky
Producer: Jeremy Dawson, Dylan Golden, Ari Handel, Darren Aronofsky
Screenwriter: Charlie Huston
Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Production Co: Columbia Pictures, Protozoa Pictures
Rating: R (Pervasive Language|Brief Drug Use|Some Sexuality/Nudity|Strong Violent Content)
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 29, 2025, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 30, 2025
Box Office (Gross USA): $18.9M
Runtime: 1h 47m
Sound Mix: Dolby Atmos, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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