5 ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS FOR BEST MOVIES ON NET FLIX

The thumbnail summary — “Aubrey Plaza gets a thief” — conjures up a bone-dry comedy through which her deadpan persona produces ironic friction with the felony underworld. But “Emily the Criminal” isn’t that movie in the slightest degree; it’s a “chilly, assured thriller,” a Michael Mann-ish procedural with nary a wink in sight,