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Aubrey Plaza delivers a fierce performance in ‘Emily the Criminal’

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A kind of gravitational pull emanates from Aubrey Plaza as the title character in “Emily the Criminal,” a passably diverting crime thriller where, in place of a moral center, Plaza delivers a performance that is entertainingly blackhearted. (Well, perhaps not entirely black, but certainly a lovely shade of charcoal gray.) As a 30-something art school graduate trying to pay off $70,000 in college loans by working for a Los Angeles catering company who discovers the lucrative world of credit card fraud — and, if only briefly, a hint of romance — Plaza draws and holds our focus. That she does so without sliding into the easy deadpan she is so often pigeonholed into, thanks to her droll turn on “Parks and Recreation,” is a nice surprise.

Plaza, sporting a plausible New Jersey accent to establish her character’s Newark roots and toughness, plays Emily, a talented and underemployed artist with skills beyond the canvas and a criminal record for DUI and unspecified aggravated assault. When she stumbles onto a way to make a quick $200 working as a dummy shopper — using a stolen credit card to purchase, say, a flat-screen TV that will later be sold on the street — she proves to be a quick study in the ways of deception.

Her mentor in the field is Youcef (Theo Rossi), a Lebanese immigrant who’s a perverse manifestation of the American Dream (Hollywood version): Make a buck however…

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