An overly-convoluted heist flick from writer/director Rawson Marshall Thurber, Red Notice relies on the odd-couple buddy-comedy interactions between smart-ass thief Nolan Booth (Ryan Reynolds) and FBI Agent John Hartley (Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson) forced to work together to beat another thief (Gal Gadot) from acquiring all three of Cleopatra’s legendary jeweled eggs while being chased by an agent of Interpol (Ritu Arya).
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“You’re a very bad influence.”
Aubrey Plaza stars as Emily, a former artist with a chip on her shoulder, a mountain of debt, and a felony conviction limiting her job opportunities. And then walks in the charming Youcef (Theo Rossi) and the chance to earn a little easy money buying items with fake credit cards. And after a little success that one-time opportunity becomes two, and then three, and then more as Emily falls deeper down the rabbit hole seeing a way out of her old life and ignoring the dangers her new life will bring as she begins taking larger and larger chances.
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Throwback Thursday takes us back to a con man pretending to be the world’s greatest detective in Remington Steele. After the opening sequence involving a bank robbery from the Federal Reserve by a nervous employee, only to find the money stolen, the First Season finale begins with Remington Steele (Pierce Brosnan) preventing poor Alfred (John Doolittle) from ending his own life by jumping off a bridge. Early attempts by Steele and Laura (Stephanie Zimbalist) to find the money only to further disappointing revelations such as the woman he was stealing the woman (Gina Gallego) for was using him and the boss who gave him a promotion to be put in the proper position was the brains behind the heist.
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The final two episodes of the returning and rebranded Leverage: Redemption play on themes introduced over the course of the year including the return of RIZ Security and the redemption of Harry Wilson (Noah Wyle). Harry plays a role in both the final two episodes of the season as his daughter gets him involved in the investigation of an oil company run by his ex-wife’s current husband (John Hans Tester). Ending in pyric victory for the team as RIZ destroys all evidence of wrongdoing takes us into the season finale with Harry working undercover with RIZ with the help of an old friend (Aldis Hodge) while the rest of the team begin to question his loyalty.
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Although never as cool as it thinks it is, 2022’s animated feature The Bad Guys featuring a gang of thieves attempting to be good for a change, or at least pretending to, provides its share of laughs over its slick and fast-paced 100-minute running-time.
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