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Croupier
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Generally favorable reviews
Based on 28 critic reviews
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Based on 5 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama
Written by: Paul Mayersberg
Directed by: Mike Hodges
Release Date:
Theatrical: April 21, 2000
DVD: March 9, 2004
Running Time: 91 minutes, Color
Origin: France / Germany / Ireland / UK
Summary
RATING: Not rated
Starring Clive Owen, Kate Hardie, Alex Kingston, and Gina McGee
A struggling writer (Clive Owen) finds a job at a casino to support his craft and to collect material for his novel, but he becomes embroiled in the temptations that come with his new life.
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What The Critics Said
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Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Taut, tense and enthralling, as smart and surprising as it protagonist.
Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
Intense, hypnotic, assured, Croupier mesmerizes from its opening image of a roulette ball on the move.
Newsweek Andrea C. Basora
Watching Croupier is rather like watching a roulette wheel--utterly mesmerizing.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
So sharp and dryly urbane in its mod-Brit take on the noir, noir, noir, noir world of gambling, dames, and pulp fiction, it makes higher-profile attempts like ''Rounders'' look blah, blah, blah, blah.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly John Patterson
Immensely rich, clipped and precise, with a sly, sardonic sense of humor.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Sara Wildberger
Don't let it slip out of town without getting a look at it.
Read Full Review >USA Today Stephen Schaefer
A tiny treasure: grown-up, tight, sexy, suspenseful and with a mildly ambiguous wrap-up that stimulates the mind rather than confusing it.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Jay Carr
It's brilliantly precise in its detailing, stylishly jagged and sensual by turns, and utterly unpredictable.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach
A marvelously subversive, slyly manipulative effort.
Read Full Review >Dallas Observer Andy Klein
Takes roughly a third of its length to really get going, but, once it does, it's a devilishly clever, engaging piece of work that milks every cent of value from its tiny budget.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Desson Thomson
A smoothly executed jab in your solar plexus, a lean, smart film noir that pokes at you with quintessentially English disdain and sarcasm.
Read Full Review >Mr. Showbiz Kevin Maynard
Croupier should please people who take their noir straight up -- with plenty of twists.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
Croupier, immersed in a world of gambling, gamesmanship and crime, is a solid, seductive entertainment.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
The point of the movie is not the plot, but the character and the atmosphere.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
Hodges and screenwriter Paul Mayersberg fill the British production with Dostoevskian ironies, and Owen is perfect as the antihero.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune John Petrakis
Stumbles a bit towards the end when it focuses too much on a convoluted robbery attempt, but overall, it is a slick and intelligent look at life in the passing lane.
Read Full Review >Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
There may not be much meat in Hodges' stew, but the sauce was so tasty I felt satisfied after the light meal.
Read Full Review >Film.com Ted Fry
(Owen's) existential angst and the interesting layers of character and setting give Croupier a sharp, engaging edge.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Stephen Holden
Clive Owen conveys a sharp, cynical intelligence that rolls off the screen in waves whenever he widens his glittering blue eyes.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jack Mathews
There are certainly glimpses of his underused talent. But there aren't enough of those moments to elevate Croupier above the level of routine melodrama.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Michael Atkinson
Polished and adroit ado about next to nothing, Hodges's film owes everything to Owen, who nails the vaguely unsavory, unreadable, half-lidded hunks that inhabit every profitable entertainment-industry outpost.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Stephen Hunter
Demonstrates that a movie need not be good to be cool.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Ken Fox
The film fires off too many intriguing plot possibilities that remain nothing more than that.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector
The twists and revelations of this rigorous noir reduce it to canned psychodrama.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Bob Graham
A very smart noir about gambling, smartly directed by Mike Hodges -- until almost the very end. It craps out in the decisive London casino heist scene.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 7.8 (out of 10) based on 5 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Yoon C. gave it an 8:
A fine thriller tightly constructed of elements from class-conscious kitchen sink British cinema and the tricky conventions of the crime genre. Enjoyable for its expert handling of formula and moving for its deeper psychological concerns.
Roland C. gave it an 8:
Thoroughly enjoyed the intense, brooding character of the leading bloke. The supporting characters and plot were a bit thin.
