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A snappy little heist movie with acting performances both deft and brilliant
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100The best heist flick since "The Usual Suspects," a perfect 10 of a movie.
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90Meticulously detailed thriller.
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88Not a great movie, but as a classic heist movie, it's solid professionalism.
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88It's a summit meeting between three brilliant leading men from three generations with three striking on-screen personas.
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88Nobody's going to think of The Score as trail-blazing, but there's nothing small-time about its dramatic and acting payoff.
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83A 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.
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83It has a terrific retro style, it's well-directed and it makes an engrossing showcase for its trio of stars.
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80A 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.
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80You 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.
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80There'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.
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80A 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.
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78You get the sense that this elegant, tough-guy jazz caper is a movie Clint Eastwood might have been proud to make.
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75If 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.
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75As a film, The Score may not add up to much, but take it apart and it's something to see.
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75Except when Norton is playing retarded, he and De Niro basically compete to see who can under-act the other. It's positively mesmerizing.
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75A jazzy, immensely absorbing thriller.
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75This is a solid suspense thriller that's fun. These stars have put it together in a spirit of playfulness -- as in playacting.
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70Brando wanders through the movie as if he's tolerating an annoying guest, sweetly charming one minute, detached and obnoxious the next.
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63There are explosions, double-crosses and chase sequences, but it just doesn't add up to edge-of-your-seat tension.
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60It's Norton's movie, really, and he shines both as cocky Jack and as cerebral-palsied Brian.
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60With 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.
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60I'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.
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60Perhaps awed by the congress of Method men, director Frank Oz stands back as his actors phone it in.
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60An appropriately generic title for a droning, high-toned little heist picture with no dash and no raison d'être.
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60This one's slightly better than average these days, which means slightly diverting.
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50What'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.
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Lacks a crucial element of the heist subgenre: ingenuity.
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30I don't know how much The Score cost, but it's pretty close to worthless.
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9His story accompanied by great performances by De Niro and Norton, makes the film interesting and exciting to be in the best style Mission impossible.