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Film Reviews: New Releases for Aug. 28-29
The Roses, Caught Stealing, The Thursday Murder Club
Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman in The Roses Caught Stealing **1/2 Sometimes you can watch an actor going hard with a performance that feels out of synch with the movie around them, and that's what Austin Butler delivers here, reaching for real emotional depth in a movie that's otherwise fairly flippant about its quirky-violent-caper dynamics.
Butler plays Hank Thompson, a one-time promising pro baseball prospect now tending bar on Manhattan's Lower East Side, when he gets caught up in the mayhem when multiple dangerous characters come looking for his next-door neighbor (Matt Smith).
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