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By Mike K (761) on 20 Jul 2006

Slick drama about the lives of three con-artists. Focuses on the character instead of the action they are involved in…

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By Stephen Garrett (65) for Time Out (7,510) on 23 Jun 2006

Donald Westlake's excellent screenplay does some justice to the starkness of Jim Thompson's novel; and Frears' direction never fails to grab…

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By Jesse T (557) on 30 Apr 2006

Umm. Wow. This is a shocker. I would have never thought that a movie with John Cusack and Anjelica Huston could be this well acted…

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By Jennifer A (577) on 06 Mar 2006

Very witty and some great performances. A smart film that is let down only by the fact that it looks just a little bit dated now…

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By John Stone (1) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 15 Jun 2005

If Frears and screenwriter Donald E. Westlake (who scripted The Stepfather) are light on substance, they're satisfyingly heavy on nuance…

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By David H (2,838) on 19 Oct 2004

The story is shaky and unininteresting. It tries to be a black comedy but I didn't smile once…

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By Hal Hinson (447) for Washington Post (9,851) on 15 Aug 2004

[Huston] brings a vital conviction to her scenes; they're scorchingly immediate, and her ability to get in sync with what Lily's feeling is…

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By Steve M (1,420) on 20 Jul 2004

[font=Times New Roman][size=3]6 days of work down, 2 to go[/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3][/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]Then…

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By Vincent Canby (762) for New York Times (5,786) on 19 May 2003

The Grifters is so good that one leaves the theater on a spellbound high…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 13 Nov 2002

The movie is pulp, yet it attains a surprising emotional power-especially when Anjelica Huston's Lilly, a survivor who'll do whatever it takes…

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By Ian Nathan (392) for Empire Magazine (3,326) on 24 Jul 2001

A perfectly cast and gripping neo-noir thriller…

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By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 27 Feb 2001

I guess the whole problem is that there's just not enough grifting going on…

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By Mark R. Leeper (892) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 01 Jan 2000

This is not a bad film, it just fails to materialize into a very good one…

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By Gene Siskel (446) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 18 Jul 1996

Westlake's screenplay has the right combination of vivid characters, mordant wit and avaricious savagery which distinguishes the best noir…

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By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 14 Apr 1993

While the filmmakers manage to keep things interesting (sexy, kinky, and ambiguous) much of the time, the self-conscious piety that Frears…

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By Adrienne Scott (1) for Empire (3,446) on 14 Mar 1991

The simmering implication of incestuous emotions between Lili and Roy, leading to the shocking denouement, is badly underdeveloped and mishandled,…

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