ANY DAY NOW

(director/writer: Eric Aronson; cinematographer: M.I. Littin-Menz; editor: Marion Monnier; music: Lou Barlow; cast: Taylor Gray (Steve Baker), Alexandre Templer (Sara), Armando Rivera (Danny), Paul Guilfoyle (Marty Lyons), Taylor Gray (Steve), Sheridan Thomas (Aunt Celia), Thomas Philip O’Neill (Albert); Runtime: 81; MPAA Rating: NR; producers: Eric Aronson, Mark Donadio, Dana Scott, Emily Sheehan; streaming; 2025)

“Bland heist film set in Boston.”

Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz

First timer Eric Aronson is the writer/director of this bland heist film set in Boston.

Steve Baker (Taylor Gray) is the night watchman at a Boston art museum. He’s despondent when expelled from a fictional music school for drug dealing. This leaves him in debt to his drug dealer boss (Thomas Philip O’Neill), and he can’t raise the rent money. His other major problem is that the aspiring musician is in love with his musical partner Danny’s (Armando Rivera) girlfriend Sara (Alexandre Templer).

Steve is recruited in a bar by the charismatic Marty (Paul Guilfoyle), who promises to pay off the drug debt if he joins his underground criminal organization and help them steal paintings from the museum.

The heist in the film refers to the real one that took place at the Isabelle Stewart Gardner Museum on March 18, 1990, that resulted in 13 art pieces stolen that were worth $200 million. That case remains unsolved and with the art missing.

The pic gives a fictionalized version of what could have taken place. By making it a coming-of-age character story and not focusing on the heist, things are kept breezy, contemplative and tense between Steve and Marty.

The pace is slow and there’s little action. But the acting is fine and it’s well-scripted.

REVIEWED ON 4/5/2025  GRADE: B-
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