Emily the Criminal

audience Reviews

, 79% Audience Score
  • Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
    It's great to see Aubrey Plaza in a serious role. She's relatable to people who have struggled with money and life in the lower middle class. Her affect seems flat and a callback to April Ludgate, but it highlights Emily's s bad coping mechanisms and depression rather than serving as dark comic relief. Theo Rossi is typecast as a villain and shows no depth or nuance to offset his terrible accent. It was worth the watch, but it's too bad the movie is a typical heist-y thriller. Aubrey Plaza could be really good with the right script.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    I REALLY ENJOYED THIS MOVIE. IT'S A GREAT INDIE THRILLER WITH GOOD SUSPENSE. LOVED THE CHARACTER, ACTING, AND STORY.
  • Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
    This is what happens when talent gets together. Superior Film Debut by the director and A superior acting job by Aubrey Plaza.
  • Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
    Great crime story, great acting. Its direct in the story and the objectives. A good ride from start to end.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    78%. Film about a girl with a record and in serious debt trying to make some money and it starts off as smaller petty crimes and ramps up but really is just credit card fraud. Short and to the point. Entertaining but not much need for a rewatch. 2.5 on rewatch scale
  • Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars
    Not good; not bad. Just at the edge of decent. At first i was with the main character but as it went on it got more and more unrealistic; especially near the end. If the Director's intention was for the audience to root for the main character, in my eyes, he failed. She was not a good person at all and like all criminals, a bit of a hypocrite. As for the acting, the main character got me divided: she was really good and magnetic but also bad in some scenes. Theo Rossi was good all the way tho. Very charismatic. I also wish the ending was different. It's a shame how the movie developed as it went on, because it had potential.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    I want to be Emily XXX
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    Plaza is good, good enough to see you through a fairly predictable screenplay.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    A fine directorial debut from John Patton Ford. This crime drama focuses on the how and why and less so on action and violence to great effect.
  • Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
    Faced with a crippling student loan debt, Emily (Aubrey Plaza) finds herself in an impossible financial situation due to the fact that her criminal history prevents her from finding lucrative employment. When a credit card fraud opportunity presents itself, she is forced to abandon her principles in order to deal with her mounting debt issue. Emily the Criminal is a tightly written, compactly structured crime thriller that peels away components of the flawed protagonist's character, all leading to the penultimate scene where Emily has to make a choice whether or not to abandon all that is important to her in order to achieve financial solvency. On top of the compelling story, Plaza gives what could be her strongest performance as the struggling lead character.