Emily the Criminal

Emily the Criminal (2022) is a crime thriller starring Aubrey Plaza that you can watch online on iFILM. Buried under nearly seventy thousand dollars of student debt and shut out of real jobs by a record on her file, Emily drives delivery routes with no way up and no way out.

A way out shows up as a sketchy side hustle: two hundred dollars cash to buy a flatscreen with a stolen credit card. The jobs get bigger and the danger sharper. She partners with Youcef, played by Theo Rossi, the middleman running the counterfeit-card operation, and discovers she is unsettlingly good at the work. The Los Angeles here is no postcard, just a grinding city of gig shifts, rejection emails and debt that never shrinks.

John Patton Ford's debut is a lean, tense look at how the legal economy itself pushes someone over the edge. Plaza drops her usual deadpan for something coiled and furious, carrying nearly every scene. Go in if you like small-scale thrillers in the indie tradition, where the pressure comes from empty bank accounts rather than car chases. Stream Emily the Criminal (2022) online on iFILM.