Bart Layton
American Animals’ artistic merits are not enough to make the men at the center of the story worth caring about for its duration.
In American Animals, four young men mistake their lives for a movie and attempt one of the most audacious heists in U.S. history.
Shawn Glinis reviews the two films he saw on the Monday of SXSW: Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade and Bart Layton’s American Animals.