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The Good Thief (2003)

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Average Rating: 6.8/10
Reviews Counted: 142
Fresh: 110 | Rotten: 32

Bolstered by Nolte's strong performance, The Good Thief brims with seductive style.

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Average Rating: 7.1/10
Critic Reviews: 39
Fresh: 32 | Rotten: 7

Bolstered by Nolte's strong performance, The Good Thief brims with seductive style.

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Average Rating: 3.2/5
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Movie Info

Loosely based on Jean-Pierre Melville's French film noir Bob le Flambeur, this heist film from director Neil Jordan (Interview With the Vampire, The Crying Game) stars Nick Nolte as Bob, an aging American thief living in the French city of Nice. Addicted to both heroin and gambling, Bob is in the midst of an extended personal losing streak when he rescues a new girl in town named Anne (Nutsa Kukhianidze) from her pimp. When the opportunity to steal a fortune in rare paintings from a Monte Carlo

Aug 19, 2003

$3.4M

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All Critics (146) | Top Critics (40) | Fresh (113) | Rotten (33) | DVD (22)

While Jordan's repeated freeze-frames try a little too hard for nonchalance, the overall cocktail of Gallic insouciance and American film noir grit delivers such relaxant properties you forgive a few foibles.

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out
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Mr. Jordan has lovingly recreated much of what glittered in the hard French thrillers that once starred Delon and Belmondo, and provided a superbly customized vehicle for the salty charms of ashtray-voiced Nick Nolte.

May 1, 2003
New York Observer
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Great fun despite its deficiency as a presumed thriller.

April 30, 2003 Full Review Source: New York Observer
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It's a heist film with a muddled plot, a character study with no personality.

April 24, 2003
Arizona Republic
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Rumpled and dissolute, Nolte shambles through this gracefully atmospheric crime film with a cool poignancy that verges on the comic.

April 24, 2003
Orlando Sentinel
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This is a movie for which you want to give an award to the casting director, Susie Figgis.

April 22, 2003 Full Review Source: Slate
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Nolte's hard lived, leather-lined face looks like a Muncie road map, and fits robber Bob to each crease.

October 15, 2004 Full Review

The best and most enjoyable English-language crime picture since Jackie Brown.

July 5, 2004 Full Review Source: F5 (Wichita, KS)

When it comes to movies about one last, high-stakes score, Nolte in The Good Thief pales next to Gene Hackman's low-keyed brilliance in Heist.

June 23, 2004 Full Review Source: Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)

Es casi una película hecha por divertimento, lo cual no está nada mal, pero no hay que pedirle mucho más que eso.

June 22, 2004 Full Review Source: Uruguay Total
Uruguay Total

Ao contrário do impecável anti-herói do original, Nick Nolte confere vulnerabilidade ao protagonista e, no processo, leva esta refilmagem a superar a produção de 1955.

April 2, 2004
Cinema em Cena

A fine film: Jordan creates the seedy ambience and Nolte provides the complex performance that together carry this film through a few minor rough patches.

February 23, 2004 Full Review Source: Cinemania

Watching an actor at the top of his game is a pleasure even if the film is only good, not great.

January 4, 2004 Full Review

Outside of Nick Nolte's performance, the rest of the film is a by the numbers heist drama

October 5, 2003
rec.arts.movies.reviews

A heist movie without a thrilling heist is obviously in trouble . . .

September 26, 2003 Full Review Source: Movie Gurus

Audience Reviews for The Good Thief

A movie that tried really hard for the "cool" factor, complete with a "cool" french soundtrack. It's a decent watch. It may have been much better with a better lead? I wasn't buying the suave gambler/thief played by Nick Nolte..but that's just me, maybe. I'm not really a fan.
January 17, 2012
itsjustme2004

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The Good Thief has director Neil Jordan in a playful mood. This is just brainless fun with nice visual touches, but overall it seems just all too familiar stuff. There is still no denying that it is entertaing and fun to watch. You just might expect something more from a director like Neil Jordan.
January 7, 2012
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