Heres a new one: Crime 101 is a 2026 crime thriller film starring Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Barry Keoghan, and Halle Berry. It is written and directed by Bart Layton, based on the 2020 novella of the same name by Don Winslow.
Big stars! How weird this has disappeared.
I haven’t read the plot so no spoilers, but I’m thinking it’s possible that there might be culturally or politically unsettling elements in this film. Remember: IDIOCRACY predicted our NOW and it was disappeared. ANNIVERSARY is our NOW and it was disappeared.
Crime 101 was released in January and I literally have never heard of it despite a great cast. What’s going on? Disappeared to protect the guilty?
There’s barely any detail in there but regardless, “disappeared” is not accurate. Disappeared sounds like not only was it never released, we wouldn’t even really know about it.
Details from the Wikipedia article:
A number of critics connected the film’s reception to its unusual distribution and minimal promotion, which several reviews treated as part of the story of how it reached audiences.[d] Empire’sreviewer detailed Fox’s decision not to screen the film for critics and its sparse theatrical rollout, portraying this handling as a major reason the film was not widely seen at the time.[31]The Slate writer framed the release pattern as a form of institutional discomfort with the film’s targets, presenting the quiet rollout as consistent with a satire that attacks corporate and media power.[30] Film Threat’s reviewer likewise emphasized the limited release and lack of advertising, contrasting that treatment with what the review described as a genuinely funny film and interpreting the mismatch as evidence of tension between the filmmaker and the studio.[37] The Los Angeles Times and the Austin Chronicle both described the film as effectively dumped, with the latter suggesting that this kind of dismissive handling resembled the institutional stupidity that the film itself lampoons.[28][33]