Hustle
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: December 25, 1975 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
77
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 6 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0
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89
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
Hustle is a great modern love story disguised as a neo-noir police procedural. Read full review
80
Time OutStaff (Not Credited)
Remarkable contemporary film noir that cuts the dirt and corruption of Los Angeles with a strain of allusions to (and, in the case of Reynolds' cop, illusions of) European romance. Read full review
75
Chicago ReaderDave Kehr
The sinister mise-en-scene is compromised only by a few overripe lines from screenwriter Steve Shagan, and Reynolds reveals himself as an actor of depth and complexity. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
It's a movie about characters, primarily. It cares more about getting inside these people than it does about solving its crime. Read full review
75
TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not Credited)
Hustle is one of the few examples of true modern film noir. But director and screenwriter cannot resolve their different approaches. The script's humanistic, if depressing, angle gets battered by Aldrich's approach. An interesting mixed bag. Read full review
70
VarietyStaff (Not Credited)
The film’s drawbacks are simply a lack of some restraint, since otherwise all the elements are present for a sensational, hardhitting human story. Read full review
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