Emily the Criminal, 2022 - ★★★

EMILY THE CRIMINAL (John Patton Ford, USA, 2022) 6

When the titular Emily (Aubrey Plaza) visits the mother of her partner-in-crime, Youcef (also increasingly her plain-ol’-partner), the older woman tells her “God will give you a gift” and make her “Emily the Something.” As the title suggests, Emily finds her vocation. EMILY THE CRIMINAL has the pleasures and low-key thrills of the civilian-rises-in-the-underworld genre, During a sh*t day at her McJob, Emily gets dropped a lead for a one-time cash gig, purchasing expensive goods as a “dummy shopper” using stolen-ID credit cards; those trinkets then get flipped by the card procurer. However, the film seems not to realize that this is a very old genre (its South American coda might remind you of 1951’s more-comic THE LAVENDER...

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May 31st 2022
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