FIERCE CREATURES (AMERICAN ANIMALS)
Bart Layton's 'American Animals' is a rare bird. It blends fiction with interviews with the real life people depicted by its cast to create a jaw dropping docudrama that can hold its own against any heist movie. Yet the heist that inspired it has to be one of the most naive ever portrayed onscreen. Inspired by an audacious attempt in Kentucky by students in 2004 to raid Transylvania University's library and steal rare books, writer-director Bart Layton delivers a thrilling tale that has cult movie written all over it. Dublin actor Barry Keoghan plays Spencer Reinhard, a talented arts student from a nice middle class family who falls in with Evan Peters' wild sports scholar Warren Lipka. Believing he needs a more thrilling life to inspire great art, Spencer enjoys hanging about with Warren as he flirts with danger, stealing meat from a local restaurant. A guided tour of the university library by Spencer, however, inspires their bizarre