Croupier (1998)
Average Rating: 7.7/10
Reviews Counted: 54
Fresh: 53 | 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.
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
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Clive Owen
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Kate Hardie
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Gina McKee
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Nicholas Ball
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Rhona Mitra
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Doremy Vernon
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All Critics (78) | Top Critics (19) | Fresh (55) | Rotten (1) | DVD (11)
Croupier is taut, tense and enthralling, as smart and surprising as its protagonist.
Top CriticGambling and gamblers are a movie staple, but Croupier comes at the sport and its population from a fresh and, finally, rewardingly wide perspective.
It's amazing the level of suspense that Hodges builds as Jack/Jake intermingles with other people.
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.
Clive Owen's breakthrough role
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.
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.
One of the very best movies of this beloved and sleazy genre.
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- Bella: Tits and a uniform.. punters love it.
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