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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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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

Directed By: Mike Hodges

Written By: Paul Mayersberg

In Theaters: Apr 21, 2000 Limited

On DVD: Mar 26, 2001

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Cast

Clive Owen
Jack Manfred
Kate Hardie
Bella
Alex Kingston
Jani de Villiers
Gina McKee
Marion
Nicholas Ball
Jack's Father
Rhona Mitra
Girl with Joint
Doremy Vernon
Woman #1
Alexander Morton
Barnaby Kay
David Hamilton
Eddie Osei
Nick Reding

Critic Reviews for Croupier

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

Peter Travers

Rolling Stone

Top Critic

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

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James Berardinelli

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

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Joe Baltake

Sacramento Bee

Top Critic

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

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Stephen Holden

New York Times

Top Critic

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

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Top Critic

Don't let Croupier go by without a look.

January 1, 2000 Comment

Tom Keogh

Film.com

Top Critic

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

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Todd Gilchrist

FilmStew.com Source: FilmStew.com

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)

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Harry Guerin

RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland) Source: RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland)

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

January 17, 2003 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid

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Jeffrey M. Anderson

Combustible Celluloid

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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 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