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Croupier

Croupier (1998)

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Average Rating: 7.7/10
Reviews Counted: 53
Fresh: 52 | Rotten: 1

The writer slumming for human truths and real experience is a common enough story, but this cool-headed and slick thriller provides a gut-churningly compelling backdrop to a look at our darker sides.

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Average Rating: 7.7/10
Critic Reviews: 13
Fresh: 13 | Rotten: 0

The writer slumming for human truths and real experience is a common enough story, but this cool-headed and slick thriller provides a gut-churningly compelling backdrop to a look at our darker sides.

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76

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Average Rating: 3.7/5
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Movie Info

A man finds his personal and professional loyalties divides by his new career at a casino in this crime drama. Jack Manfred (Clive Owen) is a cocky, supremely confident man who wants to be a writer. Jack's long struggle to finish his first novel has landed him deep in debt, and his father (Nicholas Ball) volunteers to get him a job in a casino in London. While Jack doesn't gamble himself, he has the dexterity (and enough contempt for the game) to be a good dealer. He's soon making a tidy living

R, 1 hr. 31 min.

Mystery & Suspense, Drama

Paul Mayersberg

Mar 26, 2001

The Shooting Gallery

All Critics (76) | Top Critics (18) | Fresh (54) | Rotten (1) | DVD (11)

Croupier is taut, tense and enthralling, as smart and surprising as its protagonist.

May 10, 2001 Comment
Rolling Stone
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With its fascinating, multi-layered plot, intelligent screenplay, and subtle-yet-undeniable tension building, Croupier is an engrossing, stylish thriller that never threatens to wear out its welcome.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: ReelViews | Comment
ReelViews
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It's amazing the level of suspense that Hodges builds as Jack/Jake intermingles with other people.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee | Comment
Sacramento Bee
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Clive Owen conveys a sharp, cynical intelligence that rolls off the screen in waves whenever he widens his glittering blue eyes.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comment
New York Times
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The choice of Clive Owen as the star is a good one. He's got the same sort of physical reserve as Sean Connery in the Bond pictures.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | Comment
Chicago Sun-Times
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Don't let Croupier go by without a look.

January 1, 2000 Comment
Film.com
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Not enough positive things can be said of Croupier. It plays a remarkable trick on the audience that few films before or since have done.

March 26, 2004 Full Review Source: FilmStew.com | Comment

For refusing to lie down and let his film die and for returning some much needed cred to British cinema, Hodges deserves another roll of the dice.

February 12, 2003 Full Review Source: RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland) | Comment

One of the very best movies of this beloved and sleazy genre.

January 17, 2003 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | Comment
Combustible Celluloid
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Audience Reviews for Croupier

There are few movies that actually take a look at the deep issues of people in the gambling business. Clive Owens was just fantastic playing Jack, a writer to be while having a talent with cards. With a wonderful story, the stylish background was beautiful. If you liked this, you should watch Hard Eight.

January 21, 2011
paul o.
paul oh

Super Reviewer

This movie has a lot of things going for it. Clive Owen, gambling and violence. But as an American used to American movies of the same nature, this movie just doesn't pul it's own weight. It is a "crime drama thriller," that fails to be thrilling.

November 15, 2010
itsjustme2004

Super Reviewer

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