Caught Stealing is now formally a worldwide streaming smash. The brand new crime thriller starring Austin Butler was launched in theaters in August 2025 over Labor Day weekend and flopped on the field workplace by failing to make again its mid-sized funds.
Now, over three months later, Caught Stealing ranks third on HBO Max High 10 films on this planet for in the present day, December 8. It ranks under The Conjuring: Final Rites in first, The Household McMullen, and above The Polar Categorical, Life, Till Daybreak, Elf, Harry Potter and the Thinker’s Stone, The Phoenician Scheme, and On Swift Horses in tenth.
Whereas it is not accessible on HBO Max in the USA, Caught Stealing can be streaming on Netflix, the place it was additionally not too long ago trending at fourth of their High 10 in the USA, rating behind Jingle Bell Heist, Aquaman and the Misplaced Kingdom, and Canine.
Directed by Oscar nominee Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan), with a script written by Charlie Huston primarily based on their 2004 novel of the identical identify, Caught Stealing stars Austin Butler as a former baseball player-turned-bartender who by accident turns into entangled in New York Metropolis’s prison underworld whereas taking care of his neighbor’s pet.
Along with Oscar nominee Austin Butler (Elvis), the solid additionally consists of Matt Smith (Physician Who), Oscar winner Regina King (If Beale Avenue Might Speak), Zoë Kravitz, Liev Schreiber, Vincent D’Onofrio, Dangerous Bunny, Griffin Dunne, Carol Kane, Motion Bronson, George Abud, Nikita Kukushkin, Yuri Kolokolnikov, D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Will Brill, Tenoch Huerta, and Laura Dern.
Caught Stealing acquired optimistic evaluations as a free and retro-styled romp that highlights Austin Butler’s plain star energy and represents an unexpectedly playful change of tempo for director Darren Aronofsky, leading to an 84% rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes.
The movie additionally has an 83% rating from audiences, who additionally discovered it to be a gritty ’90s-tinged pulp journey that delivers an entertaining and hard-hitting romp powered by the magnetic presence of Austin Butler and Zoë Kravitz.
Nonetheless, Caught Stealing flopped on the field workplace by grossing solely $32.5 million worldwide towards its reported funds within the vary of $40–65 million. Though, as evidenced by it trending on HBO Max and Netflix, Caught Stealing is a must-watch on streaming.
- Launch Date
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August 29, 2025
- Director
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Darren Aronofsky
- Writers
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Charlie Huston
- Producers
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Ari Handel, Jeremy Dawson