{"id":5601,"date":"2018-06-20T14:38:26","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T21:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=5601"},"modified":"2018-06-20T14:38:26","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T21:38:26","slug":"review-american-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=5601","title":{"rendered":"Review: AMERICAN ANIMALS"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Part documentary, part thrilling narrative feature, Bart Layton\u2019s cautionary tale takes a real life event and uses the event\u2019s actual players to explain and dramatically recreate a terribly stupid crime.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5603\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/AmericanAnimals1-198x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" \/>When college students Spencer Reinhard (Barry Keoghan) and Warren Lipka (Evan Peters) decide to spice up their lives by committing a little heist, they have no idea what they are really doing. Their bright idea is to steal rare and priceless books from the university library and fence them. It\u2019s a simple plan but not one to be carried out by criminals-in-training. And bringing in a couple other clueless students (including a jock played well by Blake Jenner) doesn\u2019t help. As things go from bad to worse to worser, these youngsters find their future slipping farther and farther out of reach.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5427\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/FixReel-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/FixReel-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/FixReel-286x286.png 286w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/FixReel-450x450.png 450w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/FixReel-400x400.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>\u201cAmerican Animals\u201d relies on a hybrid approach by using documentary style interviews with the real perpetrators (Lipka, Reinhard, Allen, and Borsuk) to tell the story of a botched robbery from four different points of view. Ultimately, we know the theft was a failure and the foursome were caught and prosecuted, but what really happened? Well, that depends on who is on camera. It\u2019s a fascinating followup for filmmaker Layton, whose last film was the fantastic \u201cThe Imposter.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hybrid documentary\/narrative feature comes from director who brought us &#8220;The Imposter.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[493,494,495,496,497,50],"class_list":["post-5601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-american-animals","tag-barry-keoghan","tag-bart-layton","tag-blake-jenner","tag-even-peters","tag-movie-review","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}