{"id":41566,"date":"2026-04-28T07:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T11:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=41566"},"modified":"2026-04-27T21:43:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T01:43:28","slug":"41566","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=41566","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Crime 101&#8221; (2026) written and directed by Bart Layton, starring Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Barry Keoghan and Halle Berry \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z042826zview_crime101.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"741\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Crime 101 <\/i><\/b>(2026)<\/p>\n<p>Director:\u00a0 <strong>Bart Layton<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Bart Layton; <\/strong>based on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4tBRNDI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crime 101<\/a> <\/em>by <strong>Don Winslow<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: \u00a0<strong>Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Barry Keoghan, Monica Barbaro, Corey Hawkins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Halle Berry <\/strong>and<strong> Nick Nolte.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:<em>\u00a0 One Heist Connects Them All<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mike is a meticulous jewel thief.\u00a0 He carefully plans his robberies to minimize all risks.\u00a0 Mike never has to resort to violence, leaves no clues and is gone well before the police arrive.\u00a0 Mike&#8217;s goal is to get enough money to walk away from this life and start a new one without looking back.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mike has successfully pulled off a string of robberies and believes that no one has linked that one man is behind them all.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He&#8217;s wrong.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">LAPD Detective Lou Lubesnick is convinced that there are about a dozen robberies that were committed by the lone thief.\u00a0 All of the jobs were done with easy access to a highway.\u00a0 The thief had obviously cased the job and knew the comings and going of all the employees.\u00a0 And not a single job resulted in anyone being hurt.\u00a0 Although Detective Lubesnick is convinced, his bosses aren&#8217;t.\u00a0 But that isn&#8217;t deterring Lubesnick.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mike&#8217;s fence, Money also helps identify potential jobs.\u00a0 When Money pushes Mike to take down a jewelry store without enough time to figure out how to make it work, Mike passes.\u00a0 Money gets hires a hothead named Ormon for the heist.\u00a0 This puts Mike at odds with both Money and Ormon.<\/p>\n<p>As Detective Lubesnick closes in, Mike sees an opportunity for a job that will either set him up with the money needed to walk away&#8230; or get him killed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Crime 101\u00a0<\/em>is based on a novella by Don Winslow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i>Crime 101 <\/i>checks all the boxes &#8211; excellent story and direction plus a great cast.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><b><i>Crime 101 (2026) <\/i><\/b>rates 5 of 5 stars<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.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\/2026\/z042826zview_crime101a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crime 101 (2026) Director:\u00a0 Bart Layton Screenplay: Bart Layton; based on Crime 101 by Don Winslow Stars: \u00a0Chris Hemsworth, Mark<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[52,17,51,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","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\/41566","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=41566"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41571,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41566\/revisions\/41571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}