How to Rob a Bank Review: TikTok Marxism

Films about social media rarely feel authentic. For every Zola, there’s a dozen or more Sprees. That high-octane subversive action flick How to Rob a Bank feels like its online elements were really crafted with real-world software, and looks like it would find a real streaming audience, is a serious achievement. It’s also one of the most politically timely films of the year, a rage-fueled act of revenge against the American economic system that breaks us down and keeps us all in shackles. So why does it all feel so infuriatingly superficial? How to Rob a Bank is the name of the film but also a hashtag marking the massive online success of the Wolf (Nicholas Hoult) and his crew of bank robbers in Pittsburgh. The series is exactly what it says it is: a how-to guide to knocking off banks and getting away with it. But it’s not all cash withdrawals and cutting alarms.

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