Review of Dirty Pretty Things (2002) by Roger Ebert for Chicago Sun-Times — 31 Jul 2003
The strength of the thriller genre is that it provides stories with built-in energy and structure. The weakness is that thrillers often seem to follow foreseeable formulas. Frears and his writer, Steve Knight, use the power of the thriller and avoid the weaknesses in giving us, really, two movies for the price of one.
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This review of Dirty Pretty Things (2002) was written by Roger Ebert and published by Chicago Sun-Times on 31 Jul 2003.
Dirty Pretty Things has generally received very positive reviews.
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