Layton

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British writer-director Bart Layton, who previously made the quirky art heist thriller “American Animals,” now offers up his version of “Heat” with “Crime 101,” based on a 2020 novella by Don Winslow, about a jewel thief who never strays far from the 101.

From Los Angeles Times

Layton maintains a simmering tension throughout, demonstrating a commitment to gritty SoCal locations, a few bang-up action sequences and nifty reveals.

From Los Angeles Times

Layton strives to capture L.A. and he gets parts of it right: the side streets and strip malls and streaky headlights at night.

From Los Angeles Times

Writer-director Bart Layton sprinkles the film with inviting overhead shots of L.A. traffic flowing smoothly, which is to say he indulges a fantasy to rival anything in “Thor.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Mr. Layton has borrowed so many elements from “Heat,” Mr. Mann’s cops-and-robbers classic, that in the climax he even, shamelessly, has Mr. Keoghan pose as a hotel employee, as Robert De Niro did near the close of the 1995 crime epic.

From The Wall Street Journal