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Croupier
The Shooting Gallery
FILM:
MPAA 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.
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Paul Mayersberg
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Mike Hodges
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: March 9, 2004
Theatrical: April 21, 2000
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
91 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
France / Germany / Ireland / UK |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Taut, tense and enthralling, as smart and surprising as it protagonist.
100
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Intense, hypnotic, assured, Croupier mesmerizes from its opening image of a roulette ball on the move.
100
Newsweek
Andrea C. Basora
Watching Croupier is rather like watching a roulette wheel--utterly mesmerizing.

91
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.

90
LA Weekly
John Patterson
Immensely rich, clipped and precise, with a sly, sardonic sense of humor.

88
Miami Herald
Sara Wildberger
Don't let it slip out of town without getting a look at it.

88
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.

88
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
It's brilliantly precise in its detailing, stylishly jagged and sensual by turns, and utterly unpredictable.

88
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
A marvelously subversive, slyly manipulative effort.

83
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
Icy and elegant, complex and gripping.

80
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.

80
Film.com
Tom Keogh
Don't let Croupier go by without a look.

80
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.

78
Mr. Showbiz
Kevin Maynard
Croupier should please people who take their noir straight up -- with plenty of twists.

75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Croupier, immersed in a world of gambling, gamesmanship and crime, is a solid, seductive entertainment.

75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The point of the movie is not the plot, but the character and the atmosphere.

75
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Hodges and screenwriter Paul Mayersberg fill the British production with Dostoevskian ironies, and Owen is perfect as the antihero.

75
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.

75
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.

70
Film.com
Ted Fry
(Owen's) existential angst and the interesting layers of character and setting give Croupier a sharp, engaging edge.

70
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.

63
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.

60
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.

60
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
Demonstrates that a movie need not be good to be cool.

50
TV Guide
Ken Fox
The film fires off too many intriguing plot possibilities that remain nothing more than that.

50
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
The twists and revelations of this rigorous noir reduce it to canned psychodrama.

50
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.

25
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
An airless, mannered mess.


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