{"id":31504,"date":"2023-01-12T05:25:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T10:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31504"},"modified":"2023-01-12T05:34:52","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T10:34:52","slug":"emily-the-criminal-2022-starring-aubrey-plaza-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31504","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Emily the Criminal&#8221; (2022) starring Aubrey Plaza \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z011223zview_emilycriminal.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"75\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Emily the Criminal <\/strong><\/em>(2022)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>John Patton Ford<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay:\u00a0 <strong>John Patton Ford<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Aubrey Plaza, Theo Rossi, Bernardo Badillo, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Jonathan Avigdori, Victor Manso <\/strong>and <strong>Roman Arabia<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0 None.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Emily cannot catch a break.\u00a0 She works for a food catering company and barely makes enough money to stay afloat.\u00a0 Emily&#8217;s saddled with student debt for a degree she never completed.\u00a0 An aggravated assault and a DUI conviction keep her from getting better paying jobs.\u00a0 So when Emily gets the opportunity to make $200 for an hour&#8217;s work, she jumps at it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The job is illegal.\u00a0 Using a fake credit card to purchase a big ticket item will get her a $200 kickback.\u00a0 Emily does the job and is good at it.\u00a0 So she takes another riskier gig.\u00a0 Before long Emily is into a relationship with Youcef (Rossi) as she learns more about this illegal business.\u00a0 She learns too late that Youcef&#8217;s boss, Javier (Badillo) isn&#8217;t happy with Emily&#8217;s quick advancement or her relationship with his partner.\u00a0 Javier has plans of his own that don&#8217;t bode well for Youcef or Emily&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What an impressive debut for John Ford Patton who wrote and directed <em>Emily the Criminal<\/em>.\u00a0 \u00a0He was fortunate to get Aubrey Plaza and Theo Rossi to star.\u00a0 They have chemistry.\u00a0 The pair also make people who do unlikeable things likeable.\u00a0 I wish that Emily didn&#8217;t create so many of her own problems.\u00a0 The things that hold her back are all because of her bad decisions in the past.\u00a0 Then she compounds them with an attitude that prevents her from even getting through interviews for better positions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I look forward to John Ford Patton&#8217;s next feature.\u00a0 He&#8217;s shown here that he knows how to write a crime film with a flawed (anti)hero.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong>Emily the Criminal <\/strong><\/em><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\">earns 3 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z011223zview_emilycriminal2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emily the Criminal (2022) Director:\u00a0 John Patton Ford Screenplay:\u00a0 John Patton Ford Stars: Aubrey Plaza, Theo Rossi, Bernardo Badillo, Megalyn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,51,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31504"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31530,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31504\/revisions\/31530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}