Du Rififi Chez les Hommes (Rififi) Reviews
EmanuelLevy.Com
This crime-heist film by the blacklisted director Jules Dassin is his masterpiece, a seminal, thoroughly detailed chronicle of a robbery and its violent aftermath that continues to exert influence on the genre.
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| Original Score: A
Cinema em Cena
Ao lado de Bob, O Jogador, este longa é um dos melhores do gênero, tornando-se especialmente brilhante na longa seqüência do roubo, que, sem diálogos ou trilha sonora, revelou-se seminal e inesquecível.
| Original Score: 5/5
Top CriticIt took an experienced US director, Jules Dassin, who has lived in France some years, to give the French gangster pic the proper tension, mounting and treatment. This pic has something intrinsically Gallic without sacrificing the rugged storytelling.
The film turns moralistic and sour in the last half, when the thieves fall out.
A familiar but effective parable of honor among thieves.
Guardian [UK]
Jules Dassin's classic jewel-thief caper of 1955 looks as smart as paint, with its unendurably tense, entirely wordless robbery section.
ColeSmithey.com
The grandfather of all heists movies. Essential.
| Original Score: 4/5
Arizona Daily Star
Although 007 has been through his share of danger over the years, he doesn't know rififi like Dassin's film noir.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Actually rather overrated, lacking the tension, profundity, and vivid characterisation of similar films.
Film Threat
A fine example of American film noir via Paris, France.
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| Original Score: 4/5
eFilmCritic.com
It's one of the most important movies of the 20th century, and one of the very best.
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| Original Score: 5/5
This is perhaps the keenest crime film that ever came from France, including Pepe le Moko and some of the best of Louis Jouvet and Jean Gabin.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Sacramento News & Review
Although rooted in an artificial noir landscape, [Rififi] still feels very real today.
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| Original Score: 4/5
There is something else unique about the heist scene: It is the centerpiece of the film, not the climax.
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| Original Score: 4/4
BBC
The heist in Rififi is a dazzling and suspenseful set-piece.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
One heck of a movie, and a landmark in French crime drama.
Goatdog's Movies
Possibly the best heist noir ever made.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
