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Play Dirty (2025)

★ 6.6 · 605 ratings on TMDB

Even robbers get robbed.

Play Dirty poster★ 6.6

Expert thief Parker gets a shot at a major heist, but to pull it off he and his team must outsmart a South American dictator, the New York mob, and the world's richest man.

DirectorShane Black
CastChukwudi Iwuji, Gretchen Mol, Hemky Madera, Keegan-Michael Key, LaKeith Stanfield, Mark Wahlberg
GenresAction, Crime, Thriller
The emergence reading

Play Dirty keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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