Review of Emily the Criminal (2022) by Bountyhunter — 17 Aug 2022

So I went into this movie completly blind. Didnt see a trailer, just saw that Aubrey Plaza was in a new movie and wanted to go watch it.The story follows Emily who is a college drop out,struggling to make money and is just trying to find a stable job.

She also loves art but the passion is there like it used to be. When she gets invited to make $200 in a day from an contact she was given she learns its credit card scam. Once she gets a taste of how easy it is she slowly falls down the rabbit hole of wanting to make more and more cash this way.

This is deffinitly a character driven movie with Aubrey doing a fantastic job in this movie. She is known for her more dry comedic roles but she plays a serious character who is down on her luck and does fantastic in it.

The movie shows how its hard for her to get a job with small crimes on her record. I like how personal and real this movie feels, with mostly medium and close up shots through out this whole movie, making you feel really close to her and feel everything she is feeling and going through.

As the risk of the jobs go up during the movie and her making more money it gets really tense in some scenes. I really enjoyed this movie, fantstic acting from Aubrey and even Theo did a good job. This is another movie with a first time Director in John Patton Ford who I think did a good job with his first outting.

He also wrote the movie which is impressive. From beginning to end I was investing in her character growth and the story and was really interested to see how it all unfolds. If you like these kinda movies I say deffinitly check it out.