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Added on 21 November 2019 / On Showmax

American Animals (2018)

IMDB IMDb rating: 7/10

Rotten Tomatoes Rotten Tomatoes rating: 89%

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At this point, Evan Peters could appear in an advert for loo paper and we’d swoon. From his performances in American Horror Story to his achingly sad portrayal of Stan in Pose to his role as Quicksilver in the X-Men franchise, he is simply iconic.

That said, American Animals is more than the Evan Peters show. This crime drama is based on a real-life event in which a group of college students hatched a plan to rob their Kentucky university library’s rare book section, which included some of the most valuable books in existence, including a copy of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species.

This crime caper turns out to be more than an art heist, as the robbers bungle their way through the American dream (get rich, die young). They give each other code names straight out of Reservoir Dogs, don truly ridiculous disguises and get ready to taser the poor librarian (played by Ann Dowd).

Empire magazine calls American Animals a “knowing, blistering mix of heist flick and true-crime documentary”. We call it fun.

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