How ‘Crime 101’ Director Bart Layton Made a Sprawling LA Crime Thriller Worthy of the Classic Canon

Crime 101, a new crime thriller starring Chris Hemsworth, Halle Berry and Mark Ruffalo, is nearly here and we talked to ...
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Movie review: LA heist film 'Crime 101' an unsubtle nod to 'Heat'

It’s nearly impossible to resist Michael Mann’s 1995 epic crime saga “Heat” — especially for many filmmakers, who often can’t ...
Screen Daily

‘Crime 101’ review: Chris Hemsworth and Mark Ruffalo face off in slow-burn LA crime caper

The confident L.A. crime-thriller Crime 101 doesn’t so much break new ground as it reaffirms the enduring pleasures of the ...
Las Vegas Sun

Movie Review: 'Crime 101' is a middle of the road L.A. heist movie, with 'Heat' around the corner

Bart Layton’s “Crime 101” is a “Heat” pastiche that, even if it falls well shy of its Michael Mann blueprint, has some basic appeal going for it. Los Angeles crime movies are fun. Chris Hemsworth ...
BFI

“Friedkin saw American Animals and summoned me to lunch”: Bart Layton on his LA heist thriller Crime 101

Director Bart Layton speaks to us about revisiting LA crime cinema in his tense, atmospheric adaptation of Don Winslow’s Crime 101 – a heist thriller that probes identity, surveillance and the ...