Caught Stealing
Directed by Darren AronofskyWhen his neighbor asks him to take care of his cat, a former baseball prodigy now working as a bartender finds himself in the middle of gangsters without knowing why. He must use all his cunning to survive and understand what is happening.
Caught Stealing Ratings & Reviews
- thomasrogers753September 1, 2025Wear your seatbelts kids Go Giants!
- jam7410October 3, 2025Plot is very holey. I had much higher hopes. To clarify, the 83% 🍿 set expectations high, and I didn't find it that entertaining. Amusingly, I have about 83% approval of my review, suggesting the popcorn meter is broken 😁
- branden augustineMarch 22, 2026Not a light and fun movie but certainly a good one with some major star power.
- Samuel RibeiroMarch 21, 2026Caught Stealing is definitely a departure for Darren Aronofsky but in the least exciting ways. It's full of familiar tropes and story beats we've seen before but Aronofsky just doesn't do much of anything to differentiate it or raise the script above feeling so generic. It's entertaining here and there but overall there wasn't much of a personality on display. Because I kept waiting for the film to come into its own and give me a hint as to why Aronofsky was drawn to this story and it honestly just never came. Every new character feels increasingly more one-noted and the whole plot that the Austin Butler character gets dragged into is disappointingly straight forward. Austin Butler is great and I liked the fact that the movie never lost sight of this being a truly normal character totally out of his depth and they never took a convoluted jump with his skill set which I appreciated. He has a self destructive nature that I never really felt came to ahead and where they leave him off didn't really feel that set up to be a satisfying conclusion Honestly it felt like it was trying to set up a sequel that I doubt is ever going to happen. It's a really stacked cast over all but the colourful characters the trailers teased never really come about on screen and ended up feeling like a massive waste of some amazing talent. Zoe Kravitz has great chemistry with Butler but her character just fizzles out of the narrative after a while and she just ends up feeling like the standard girlfriend archetype. Matt Smith doesn't get much to do after an intriguing set up and Regina King is let down by the writing of a character who feels like she belongs in a different movie. Liev Schreiber and Vincent D'Onofrio end up feeling like the only ones who get real characters to play and the script actually capitalises on their potential. The energy of the whole film just shoots up every time they're on screen and a development surrounding those two characters raised the third act up quite a bit higher for me. While not perfect the first half is where the movie most captivated me. It really does effectively put you in this period and it's where the chemistry between Butler and Kravitz is on full display and the film is all the better for it. It's got a lot of that signature Aronofsky griminess and the violence is a lot more effective than I expected it to be. But as soon as it's revealed what all these characters are fighting over it just never truly regained my interest. The pacing slows down as the few characters I like have their appearances cut down and there's very few surprises. It's well directed but the visuals are surprisingly flat and the pacing just lagged on more and more as the runtime went on. Caught Stealing isn't a bad movie but it's middling in the most disappointing ways and sometimes that's so much worse. I kept waiting for the movie to do anything to set its self apart and not only did it never come but the more it went on the more surprised I was to see this many people of this calibre attached to something so without its own identity. I don't mind familiar beats but this film doesn't do anything interesting with them and nothing about the craft on display improves the final product. A departure for Aronofsky without a doubt but not a satisfying one.
- Tyler SSeptember 30, 2025This movie movie checks a lot of boxes for me i.e. taking place in the 90's, an everyday normal guy protagonist thrust into a crazy situation, insane over the top villains, a British punk who swears constantly, an awesome cat (I'm a cat guy) and a slew of twists I didn't see coming. By far Aronofsky's most audience friendly movie with a taste of some of the fucked up sensibilities of his past work. Austin Butler is a certified leading man now, he is in nearly the entire runtime and keeps us invested from start to finish. The supporting cast is top notch too with fun small roles from Griffin Dunne and Action Bronson. If you've seen the trailers then you know of some of the other actors that are scary and hilarious in equal measure that I don't want to spoil here. To cap it all off Aronofsky's regular DP Matthew Libatique gives the movie a pulse and vibe that makes this a must see big screen experience to end the summer season with a bang. Highly Recommended! 👍👍 8.5/10
- PhattonySeptember 30, 2025Solid rabbit hole unexpected gangster movie with a baseball background theme. Reminded me a lot like Lucky Number Slevin.
- RaddTitanFebruary 21, 2026Dull... predictable...
- arnoldo20021612October 4, 2025Probably the most enjoyable and possibly mainstream Darren Aronofsky movie to date, but not the best in a technical sense. Different genre to his usual, but it worked really well in the most part. Excellent lead and supporting cast specially lipa and shmully and russ. Also nice to see a little humour in the movie. Recommended. Also loved the end credits. Rare that I watch the entire credits, but these were a little mesmerising.
- shadow2442October 5, 2025was actually ok.
- PLEKTSIYAFebruary 7, 2026Crazy how bad it is. Not funny, not thrilling, not interesting at all. I think Aronofsky was aiming for SNATCH, but ended up with BULLET TRAIN.
- Joe GDecember 2, 2025Darren Aronofsky is my favorite director. No one else comes close, and I will defend every film he makes on artistic merit—except this one. This feels like a project funded by someone who wanted a Guy Ritchie film but couldn’t get him, so they threw money at Aronofsky, assembled a cast eager to work with him, and everyone simply took the paycheck. Nothing in the film is redeemable, and there is nothing worth highlighting. Even the constant baseball references, which should at least offer thematic coherence, are so trite they become distracting. If anyone else had directed this, it would never have been on the watchlist. And if anyone else had directed it, it would have been turned off immediately. But it wasn’t. And while there’s no regret in seeing it through, it’s impossible to recommend this to anyone who has ever appreciated Aronofsky’s work. Absolutely awful.
- andrewturner11October 1, 2025I liked it -- the film was a bit differently paced at first than what I had expected from the trailer, but I am glad I watched it. Star-studded cast with solid characters. Turn off your brain a bit and just enjoy the ride.
- runinhotOctober 1, 2025Not to bad
- Patrick WaiJanuary 17, 2026Austin Butler did a great job playing the down-and-out ex-baseball protege with Zoe Kravitz as his street-smart paramedic girlfriend. Enjoyable story unfortunately not enough character development to make us care so the film will likely be quickly forgotten. The set designer did a fantastic job of recreating mid-90s NYC.
- William De YoungJanuary 15, 2026it was a ride, did not know what i was going in for.
Caught Stealing Trivia
Caught Stealing was released on August 27, 2025.
Caught Stealing was directed by Darren Aronofsky.
Caught Stealing has a runtime of 1h 46m.
Caught Stealing was produced by Darren Aronofsky, Ari Handel, Jeremy Dawson, Dylan Golden.
When his neighbor asks him to take care of his cat, a former baseball prodigy now working as a bartender finds himself in the middle of gangsters without knowing why. He must use all his cunning to survive and understand what is happening.
The key characters in Caught Stealing are Hank Thompson (Austin Butler), Detective Roman (Regina King), Yvonne (Zoë Kravitz).
Caught Stealing is rated R.
Caught Stealing is a Crime, Thriller, Comedy film.
Caught Stealing has an audience rating of 8.3 out of 10.
Caught Stealing had a budget of $40M.
Caught Stealing has made $32.7M at the box office.