His fascination with the intricate mechanisms of high-security safes — the complex web of internal locks, cogs, pins and tumblers, breathing like live organisms — at times even has echoes of Martin Scorsese’s clockwork studies in Hugo .
The inventive director of “Baby Driver” and “Shaun of the Dead” plays around in the Hitchcock, DePalma and Lynch toybox for a trippy tale about shy country lass Eloise (Thomasin McKenzie) who beelines to the big city of London so she can enter a fashion school.
Randy Myers, rmcmullen@bayareanewsgroup.com•The Mercury News•Oct 27, 2021
The idea of a group of decidedly minor-league cons trying to make it into the major leagues, maybe with a Now You See Me standard of realism, is not unappealing.