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100A great little film, dignified by a superb performance, Diamond Men is a gem.
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90Wow. A heist movie that is more focused on people than it is crime. An incredible cast - Robert Forster and Donnie Wahlberg. Getting to see Kristin Minter's breasts and hearing her say, "F---." Damn near a perfect movie.
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90This film is extraordinary on several counts: its knowledge of an arcane trade (Mr. Cohen ran his family's diamond business after his father died); its fondness for telling good life stories; and, above all, its superb starring performance.
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90Genuine, amusing and, best of all, humanly scaled and humanely oriented.
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90The picture depends completely on those two performances (Whalberg, Forster), and the two actors come through.
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90This may not have gotten much publicity, but it's a lot more engaging than most movies that have; Forster alone makes it unforgettable.
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88It looks and listens to its characters, curious about the unfolding mysteries of the personality. It is a treasure.
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88Riding a mood that's tilted to the jazzy blues that Eddie prefers to Bobby's blasting rock on the car radio, Diamond Men is a sparkly film that's easy to love.
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83Forster carries the movie with an effortless grace and professionalism, creating a character of surprising nobility who is the very opposite of the Willy Loman caricature that's been the de rigueur salesman stereotype in movies of the past 50 years.
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80A very small film but a sweet one, an easygoing venture of the feel-good variety. What sets it apart is something even larger pictures often lack: an excellent performance by its star.
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80Eddie Miller (Robert Forster), the stolid protagonist of Diamond Men, a small, finely acted slice of American life, is the sort of character the movies normally shun like the plague for lack of glamour.
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80The movie has an intriguing wild card in Bess Armstrong as an ex-prostitute turned Zen masseuse. I'm not sure if she's meant to be brilliantly evolved or an idiot -- or if the actress is really good or really, really terrible. But her chemistry with Forster is terrific.
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75A witty, winning inversion of the famous Arthur Miller play.
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75This is Forster's show, and he doesn't disappoint.
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70The ever-charismatic character actor George Coe stands out as a small-town jeweler grateful for a late-life affair.
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70But its quiet, solid center is Forster's Eddie, a man who can keep his cool under pressure and, with the merest twitch of a facial muscle, reveal a capacity for change.
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50Diamond Men's potential as a diamond in the rough turn out to be more "rough" than "diamond."
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50Loses its way in a crime-movie subplot and a less-than-believable love affair.
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50If you're going to make a movie about men talking, shouldn't they have something important to say?
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50After a promising start, writer-director Daniel M. Cohen pours on schmaltz straight out of the similarly themed "Diamonds," including the proverbial hookers -- with hearts of gold.