I've had Chop Shop on my watch list since 2008 and finally saw it tonight at the Museum of the Moving Image (in Queens, just 3 miles away from the film's location). Other reviews correctly describe the film's lineage from Bicycle Thieves, but I was also struck by the way several climactic plot points are not shown on camera. The director clearly indicates what's about to happen, then cuts to what happens after the plot point. In this he recalls the way the Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu would handle many plot transitions. I can recommend Goodbye, Solo; 99 Homes (great performance by Michael Shannon as villain); and The White Tiger by Ramin Bahrani.
