- Starring
- Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Barry Keoghan, Halle Berry
- Director
- Bart Layton
- Rating
- R
- Genre
- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Release date
- Feb 13, 2026
In the sun-bleached sprawl of Los Angeles, where the 101 freeway cuts through shadows and secrets, a meticulous jewel thief with a strict code eyes one final, impossible score to vanish forever.
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Crime 101 REVIEW
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Crime 101 is definitely a movie that gets in its own way. While it has an interesting premise, it gets bogged down in lectures and nonsense.
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James Carrick
James Carrick is a passionate film enthusiast with a degree in theater and philosophy. James approaches dramatic criticism from a philosophic foundation grounded in aesthetics and ethics, offering insight and analysis that reveals layers of cinematic narrative with a touch of irreverence and a dash of snark.
Seeing Mark Ruffalo in the credits is reason enough for me to skip it.
Honestly seeing Mark Ruffalow in the movie would usually deter me, but this movie was pretty good. The only woke thing about it was thry have the typical white man keeping the woman down scenario in it, with Halle Berry. She works for a company that is keeping her down from a partner role because she is an old woman and they hire a younger woman to replace her as eye candy. They don’t really make woke jabs, etc.. but the message is there. I think the movie itself keeps it from being bad in a woke way though. I’d definitely wstch it again and I’m someone whoe can’t stand virtue signaling or social justice political messages, or other woke bs. So take that as you will, but I won’t watch movies with the token black friend or UN casting, women of power bs, etc..
Its sad because I really wanted to love this movie. I would describe it as the body of a great film covered in a fine layer of corpo hollywood. Great cinemetography and scenery (Though that aint Santa Barbara), good action, with interesting storylines. But no matter what it always dragged me out of it whether it was the feminist Halle Berry subplot, random comments on capitalism, evil execs or rich white guys, crooked white cops, racism towards immigrants, or even the general air of Mark Ruffalo. It never fits into the story and always feels hamfisted like someone had an excellent movie and shoved a bunch of woke shit in it. I dont think it makes it unwatchable and its still decent. But the obvious pandering drags down what could have been great
Exactly why I won’t “pay” to watch it in a theater.
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