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Whatever potential was evident in Soussan's source material is wasted on empty clichés and spoiler-alert casting. May 4, 2018 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review…
Whatever potential was evident in Soussan's source material is wasted on empty clichés and spoiler-alert casting.
Chandler Levack
Great title. Too bad what follows doesn't have the same insouciant charm. May 3, 2018 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
Great title. Too bad what follows doesn't have the same insouciant charm.
Bruce DeMara
It involves so much internecine crime that it would be hard to understand under any circumstances, but this film is a drier head-scratcher than it needs to be. Apr 30, 2018 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
It involves so much internecine crime that it would be hard to understand under any circumstances, but this film is a drier head-scratcher than it needs to be.
Rex Reed
It fails to make its subject matter interesting. Apr 27, 2018 | Rating: C- | Full Review…
It fails to make its subject matter interesting.
Adam Graham
Despite delivering few actual thrills, the fact-based "Backstabbing for Beginners" qualifies as an intelligent, well-crafted political thriller... Apr 26, 2018 | Full Review…
Despite delivering few actual thrills, the fact-based "Backstabbing for Beginners" qualifies as an intelligent, well-crafted political thriller...
Michael Rechtshaffen
An inert would-be thriller. Apr 26, 2018 | Full Review…
An inert would-be thriller.
Frank Scheck
Takes an unsexy geopolitical scandal and makes it even more drab. Jul 20, 2019 | Rating: 1.5/5 | Full Review…
Takes an unsexy geopolitical scandal and makes it even more drab.
Josh Goller
This is a fascinating, outrage-provoking story but director Per Fly's bid to turn it into a cloak-and-dagger thriller falls disappointingly flat. Mar 11, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
This is a fascinating, outrage-provoking story but director Per Fly's bid to turn it into a cloak-and-dagger thriller falls disappointingly flat.
Jason Best
Backstabbing for Beginners doesn't convey the complexities of this scandal nor the troubled, compromised humanity of its characters. Aug 27, 2018 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Backstabbing for Beginners doesn't convey the complexities of this scandal nor the troubled, compromised humanity of its characters.
Nicholas Bell
Ben Kingsley - who is always great - does some scenery-chewing as Soussan's more experienced boss, but even Kingsley's presence isn't enough to make things work. Aug 14, 2018 | Rating: C | Full Review…
Ben Kingsley - who is always great - does some scenery-chewing as Soussan's more experienced boss, but even Kingsley's presence isn't enough to make things work.
Tom Santilli
The best moments in director Fly's middling film are about character, not action. Yet it does go in its anticlimactic way to a place where thrillers rarely dare: the ethical grey zone. May 4, 2018 | Full Review…
The best moments in director Fly's middling film are about character, not action. Yet it does go in its anticlimactic way to a place where thrillers rarely dare: the ethical grey zone.
Liam Lacey
Theo James, whose voice is quite engaging and easy on the ears, also narrates 'BFB,' which helps us follow this complicated fictionalized version of Michael Soussan's compelling memoir. May 3, 2018 | Full Review…
Theo James, whose voice is quite engaging and easy on the ears, also narrates 'BFB,' which helps us follow this complicated fictionalized version of Michael Soussan's compelling memoir.
Betty Jo Tucker
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