American Animals's reviews
Media reviews
Variety
"This is unabashedly virtuoso, show-off filmmaking, as cocky as the misguided young men at the film?s center, who, at least for a period, saw their lives as a Hollywood romp in itself."
The Hollywood Reporter
"Both as a writer and director, Layton delivers the dramatic goods here with the skill of a pro at the top of his game while adding the rueful perspective of time's reassessment of youthful indiscretions; this has to rate among the most accomplished and fully realized big-screen debuts of recent times."
Indiewire
"American Animals is fiercely entertaining from start to finish, even when its characters are acting so dumb that you start to suspect they still have some more evolving to do."
Roger Ebert
"Would you enjoy a movie where Warren Buffet robs a bodega ? and kicks the bodega cat for good measure? Because that?s what American Animals feels like."