There's a sad, compulsive, edge-of-the-abyss desperation to Nick Nolte's intuitive and informed performance...
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04/19/03
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The Good Thief (2003)
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Reviews Counted:137
Fresh:106
Rotten:31
Average Rating:6.9/10
Consensus: Bolstered by Nolte's strong performance, The Good Thief brims with seductive style.
Theatrical Release:Apr 2, 2003 Limited
Box Office: $3,416,785
Synopsis: Set against the glitzy backdrop of the French Riviera and its seedy underworld is Academy Award-winner Neil Jordan’s clever, sexy caper, THE GOOD THIEF. Bob Montagnet (Nick Nolte) is about to... [More]
Starring: Nick Nolte, Tcheky Karyo, Nutsa Kukhianidze, Emir Kusturica
Director: Neil Jordan
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Reviews for The Good Thief
If director Neil Jordan was going for criminal cool, he hit the jackpot with The Good Thief.
04/18/03
Jordan has made a film that is both traditional enough to hold those moviegoers who don't catch its kickiness, and cinematic enough to hook those in thrall of 'camera art.'
04/18/03
A sparkling exercise in movie cool.
04/18/03
The heist is the story's spine, the melody. But what's really interesting are the solo flights that branch off and the filigrees that embellish it.
04/18/03
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04/18/03
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04/18/03
The Good Thief is spry, quirky, morose, entertaining, tedious, slow, loose and quotable. In a word: it's uneven.
04/17/03
A diamond in the rough, just like Nolte and the character he rode in on.
04/17/03
Blurry, opiated, jagged with melancholy and stone cold beautiful.
04/17/03
Nolte is perfectly cast as this charming loser. The problem is, he knows it.
04/17/03
Top Critic...a shambling, dope-addled cousin to Ocean's Eleven, one in which everyone smokes a lot and hangs out with prostitutes.
04/15/03
Jordan delivers easily his most satisfying work since 1992's The Crying Game.
04/15/03
[T]here probably isn't another actor in the world better suited to play a substance-abusing, world-weary charmer than Nick Nolte.
04/14/03
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04/14/03
A darker, French version of Ocean's 11, without the stars and without the subtitles.
04/14/03
...mostly entertaining, if completely forgettable.
04/13/03
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04/13/03
Unlike the crispness of the original, the word that best describes this production is lassitude, from characters so tired they can't manage to speak intelligibly to the listless caper(s) plot that seems doomed from the beginning.
04/12/03
There's not much to remember a few days later, but it's eye candy of a very high order.
04/11/03
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