The Thomas Crown Affair
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation (MGM) | Release Date: August 6, 1999 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
72
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 23 Critic Reviews
Positive:
19
Mixed:
4
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
SlateDavid Edelstein
The world didn't need a remake of The Thomas Crown Affair. We didn't need it, but we got it anyway -- and it's pretty terrific. Read full review
90
SalonCharles Taylor
It's a deluxe vacation for adults with all frills included: glamorous settings, glamorous clothes, glamorous sex. Read full review
83
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
A romp of romantic larceny built out of spare parts we've seen in countless other films. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
A moderately diverting entertainment as sleek and aerodynamically sound as the glider its characters tool around in, it takes no extraordinary chances and delivers no major surprises. Read full review
80
NewsweekDavid Ansen
Slick, gaudily suave guilty pleasure of a movie. Read full review
80
Washington PostStephen Hunter
This is a movie that understands the larger-than-life appeal of the old-fashioned movie star and one of the movies' most primal appeals: beautiful people doing amusing things while talking about it cleverly. Read full review
80
Washington PostDesson Thomson
A full-throttle fantasy, about as heady a movie experience as it gets. Read full review
80
Film.comRobert Horton
Strangely enough, this movie provides a lot of the James Bond veneer that has been missing from recent James Bond movies. Read full review
80
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
It's a piece of disposable fluff -- though that's exactly what's so appealing about it. Read full review
80
EmpireBob McCabe
As absorbed as he is with his characters, McTiernan is still able to provide a couple of dazzling set pieces - the sustained opening heist (involving a pun-intended Trojan horse) is a doozy, while the Magritte-inspired, music-fuelled denouement is, well, inspired. Read full review
80
The New YorkerDavid Denby
The movie is expert piffle for grownups, directed with great energy by John McTiernan and written with verve by Leslie Dixon and Kurt Wimmer. Read full review
75
San Francisco ExaminerWesley Morris
McTiernan's film mines what substance it has from its two stars, but is admittedly about keeping up its own appearances. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleBob Graham
What The Thomas Crown Affair has to sell audiences is a fantasy of the life of the super-rich who jet off to Martinique on the spur of the moment, and the super-smart who operate outside the rules. Read full review
75
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
Non-cultists should enjoy this engaging and well-acted retread -- a film that develops its own charm as it goes along. Read full review
70
Village VoiceMichael Atkinson
A sealskin-slick, cat-and-mouse romance-caper trifle with a hard-on for wealth that feels downright Trumpian. Read full review
70
VarietyTodd McCarthy
The characters in The Thomas Crown Affair are cool -- too cool, in fact, for the film to develop much of a pulse. Read full review
70
The New York TimesJanet Maslin
Hard to believe that real emotion was involved anywhere in this story. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
Too expensive for its own good, too chic for comfort. Read full review
63
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
The remake has a superior caper but less chemistry. Read full review
60
L.A. WeeklyManohla Dargis
An improvement on the original, but that isn't saying much. Read full review
60
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
It's enjoyable poppycock. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
This new interpretation does few things better than the original, and many things worse. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
Why remake Norman Jewison's staunchly cool 1968 heist film in such a lackadaisical, uninspired manner? Read full review
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