The Hustle
United Artists | Release Date: May 10, 2019 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
35
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 28 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
13
Negative:
13
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
The Seattle TimesMoira MacdonaldMay 9, 2019
Hathaway and Wilson, instead of exuding odd-couple comic chemistry, seem to barely be in the same movie; they don’t click, with each other or with a bland Alex Sharp as their tech-bro mark. Read full review
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Anne T. DonahueMay 9, 2019
The Hustle should’ve been a comedy that served equal parts wit and social commentary – otherwise, why gender-swap? It should’ve given Wilson and Hathaway a means through which to shine. These are talented, seasoned, capable women. And for their experience to be wasted in a production that is below them, below their director’s filmography and below the original material is tragic. Read full review
38
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsMay 9, 2019
Well, it’s a dud. Nothing quite clicks. Read full review
38
Philadelphia Daily NewsGary ThompsonMay 9, 2019
Wilson and Hathaway don’t click. The characters feel as if they were workshopped separately, and efforts to combine their comic energy on screen fall flat. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineDerek SmithMay 9, 2019
Like other gender-swapped films in recent years, The Hustle plays the identity politics game as an end in itself. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleMay 9, 2019
When the end finally arrives, it brings no sense of completion, just a sort of numb awareness that the pain has stopped. Read full review
20
EmpireElla KempMay 10, 2019
The Hustle buckles under the overbearing weight of its own vulgarity. Avoid the dirty rubble by all means. An embarrassment to the heist genre, an insult to all existing comedies, a disgrace to feminism. Read full review
20
The TelegraphRobbie CollinMay 9, 2019
The switch from male to female leads has been done with so little apparent regard for how it might actually affect the plot that entire tracts of the film, including its finale, now land like poorly tossed pancakes. Read full review
20
Time OutJoshua RothkopfMay 9, 2019
Seriously missing the memo in a cringe-inducing way, The Hustle takes a perfectly fine premise from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels—two predatory men get played by a savvier woman—and obliterates it by swapping genders and ultimately selling out its feminist credibility. Read full review
20
Rolling StonePeter TraversMay 9, 2019
They say it’s all in the timing, especially when it comes to funny business. But in The Hustle everyone’s inner comedic clock is calamitously off. The setups are flat, the jokes don’t land and the actors don’t — or won’t — connect. Read full review
20
The GuardianPeter BradshawMay 9, 2019
Anne Hathaway detonates a megaton blast of pure unfunniness in this terrifying film. Read full review
16
The PlaylistKimber MyersMay 9, 2019
The Hustle is profoundly stupid and it treats its audience as though they’re even less intelligent than it is. Read full review
0
The Film StageJohn FinkMay 18, 2019
Like Holmes & Watson proved late last year, two comedic giants is just not enough to save terrible material that should have been fixed long before the film went into production. Read full review
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