The Good Thief

Name: The Good Thief
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime
Released: April 2, 2003
Duration: 108 min
Rating: 68
Cast: Nick Nolte

2003

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Fox Searchlight Pictures | Release Date: April 2, 2003 | R

Starring: Nick Nolte

Summary: Inspired by the Jean-Pierre Melville classic "Bob Le Flambeur," Neil Jordan's clever, sexy caper features a complex plot full of copies and originals. (Fox Searchlight)

Director: Neil Jordan

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 108 min

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Michael Sragow

Nolte's gambler-bandit Bob Montagnet is a triumph of imagination, touched with electric existential poetry. Read full review

Michael Wilmington

There's a zest and brilliance in Neil Jordan's racy heist thriller The Good Thief that makes it almost intoxicating to watch. Read full review

Ella Taylor

Indeed, The Good Thief is a fairy tale, not just in the plotted fun of the heist and counterheist, or in the clever twist thrown in at the end, but in the grandiloquent myth, so passionately espoused by Melville, of the crook as a man of honor and elegance. Read full review

Rene Rodriguez

A sparkling exercise in movie cool. Read full review

Keith Phipps

Jordan invests attention in even the most throwaway moments and marginal characters, and his care makes the film a sustained, low-key pleasure. Read full review

James Berardinelli

Lovers of drama featuring quirky characters will find things to appreciate. Read full review

Lawrence Toppman

It's as French as a half-smoked Gauloise and, like a half-smoked Gauloise, it stinks. Read full review

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PatC.

Dec 2, 2005

Had all the elements of a great zinger, but the assemblage was muddled and flat.

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PaulP.

Feb 16, 2007

Muddled plot, confusing editing, ridiculously bad, cliched dialogue, pretentious soundtrack ! A supposed homage to French New Wave ? I'm not a film student or even a film buff but if you want to see this sort of thing done well check out the film Diva from the early eighties.

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