Review of American Animals (2018) by Dawdlingpoet — 25 Nov 2021

To be totally honest, I found the fact that the librarian in this film sounded just like Aunt Lydia in the TV series 'The Handmaid's Tale' very distracting (I looked it up on IMDB and it seems I'm right,Ann Dowd is in The Handmaid's Tale and this film, so...there you go). I thought it was interesting that the people involved are interviewed in between scenes of the reconstruction of what happened and also, more generally, that what happened took place in a college library, as I'm not sure I've seen such a heist/crime film set in a college library before. It also explains what happened to the main characters at the end of the film (its based on, I believe, a true story) and at the start of the credits rolling at the end, we're shown some of the detailed paintings from the texts that were targeted in the heist the film is about, which I also found interesting.

Some of the dialogue/script is pretty witty and thought provoking and I thought it was an entertaining watch, so I'd give this a 7/10 rating. Yes I'd recommend the film.