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Score, The
Paramount Pictures
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for language
Starring
Robert De Niro,
Edward Norton,
Marlon Brando,
Angela Bassett,
Gary Farmer,
Paul Soles,
and
Jamie Harrold
Career thief Nick Wells (De Niro) postpones his plans for retirement and joins forces with a young upstart (Norton) to mastermind a nearly impossible theft.
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Lem Dobbs
Scott Marshall Smith
Kario Salem (also story)
Daniel E. Taylor (story)
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Frank Oz
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: December 11, 2001
Video: December 11, 2001
Theatrical: July 13, 2001
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
123 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
The best heist flick since "The Usual Suspects," a perfect 10 of a movie.

100
Portland Oregonian
Barry Johnson
A snappy little heist movie with acting performances both deft and brilliant

90
Variety
Robert Hofler
Meticulously detailed thriller.

88
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
Nobody's going to think of The Score as trail-blazing, but there's nothing small-time about its dramatic and acting payoff.

88
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
It's a summit meeting between three brilliant leading men from three generations with three striking on-screen personas.

88
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Not a great movie, but as a classic heist movie, it's solid professionalism.

83
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
A sturdily diverting old fashioned heist thriller that looks like a masterpiece of sheer competence next to the slovenly action fantasy F/X grab bags that have been passing for summer entertainment.

83
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
It has a terrific retro style, it's well-directed and it makes an engrossing showcase for its trio of stars.

80
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
There's more suspense in watching Brando, who has trouble with physical exertion, get on and off a bar stool than the robbery itself. Still, Brando -- his eyes alive with mischief --is the life of the movie.

80
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
You begin to wonder whether a story is ever going to show up. When it does, it's worth the wait for a long and well-turned set piece coordinating the heist, and two lovely flips in the plot.

80
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
A top-drawer heist movie that ratchets up the tension inch by careful inch, The Score will remind you of classic caper films of the past, and that is a good thing.

80
Salon.com
Charles Taylor
A weaker actor, one more naked than De Niro is now capable of being, might have revealed some inner compulsion in the character. But De Niro's steadiness becomes part of the movie's rugged stolidity.

78
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
You get the sense that this elegant, tough-guy jazz caper is a movie Clint Eastwood might have been proud to make.

75
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Except when Norton is playing retarded, he and De Niro basically compete to see who can under-act the other. It's positively mesmerizing.

75
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
If The Score isn't quite in the same league as the classic "Rififi" or even "Thief," its single-mindedness still makes for a refreshing change from the preposterous bloat of most contemporary action movies.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Bob Graham
This is a solid suspense thriller that's fun. These stars have put it together in a spirit of playfulness -- as in playacting.

75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
A jazzy, immensely absorbing thriller.

75
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
As a film, The Score may not add up to much, but take it apart and it's something to see.

70
New Times (L.A.)
Gregory Weinkauf
Brando wanders through the movie as if he's tolerating an annoying guest, sweetly charming one minute, detached and obnoxious the next.

63
USA Today
Claudia Puig
There are explosions, double-crosses and chase sequences, but it just doesn't add up to edge-of-your-seat tension.

60
TV Guide
Tanya L. Edwards
With its dream cast, standard story and heaps of class, this is the kind of sophisticated heist flick that could be just as easily at home in 1951 as it is in 2001.

60
New York Magazine
Peter Rainer
I'm not sure I have it in me to rant yet again about what a deprivation it is for our finest actor to deny us his genius in this way.

60
Village Voice
Dennis Lim
Perhaps awed by the congress of Method men, director Frank Oz stands back as his actors phone it in.

60
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
This one's slightly better than average these days, which means slightly diverting.

60
Mr. Showbiz
Cody Clark
It's Norton's movie, really, and he shines both as cocky Jack and as cerebral-palsied Brian.
60
Slate
David Edelstein
An appropriately generic title for a droning, high-toned little heist picture with no dash and no raison d'être.

50
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
What's fatal to the film is that De Niro's character, though compelling, is so temperate and wise he gives no indication of why he was drawn to a life of crime.

40
Wall Street Journal
Ed Epstein
Lacks a crucial element of the heist subgenre: ingenuity.
30
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
I don't know how much The Score cost, but it's pretty close to worthless.


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