Grisbi (re-release)
United Motion Pictures Organization (UMPO) | Release Date: September 5, 2003 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
85
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 8 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0
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100
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
A wonderful treasure from the seemingly inexhaustible cornucopia of crackling French crime dramas. Read full review
100
San Francisco ChronicleEdward Guthmann
The magic here is all in the telling: in the graceful, laconic direction of Jacques Becker. Read full review
100
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Max is played by Jean Gabin, named "the actor of the century" in a French poll, in Jacques Becker's Touchez Pas au Grisbi, a 1954 French crime film that uncannily points the way toward Jean-Pierre Melville's great "Bob Le Flambeur" the following year. Read full review
88
Boston GlobeJanice Page
Roughly translated, Touchez pas au Grisbi means ''don't touch the loot.'' But in literal terms, this film version of Albert Simonin's blockbuster really couldn't care less who ends up with the cash. Read full review
80
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
Jean Gabin wasn't yet 50 when he starred as a big-time, high-style gangster hoping to retire, but he still looks pretty wasted, and this pungent tale about aging and friendship, adapted from a best-selling noir thriller by Albert Simonin, would be hard to imagine without his puffy features. Read full review
70
L.A. WeeklyJon Strickland
Grisbi is hard (new subtitles bring out the chill of the gangsters' argot) and gray: a meditation on what we are left with when life has let us down, played out in the haunted eyes of Jean Gabin. Read full review
60
VarietyStaff (Not Credited)
Jeanne Moreau turns in a neat bit as a moll and Dary as the inarticulate aging Romeo friend is memorable. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not Credited)
Often confusing, especially during the first half, but Gabin and Ventura are well cast as hoods. Read full review
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