| 90 |
Slate
The world didn't need a remake of The Thomas Crown Affair. We didn't need it, but we got it anyway -- and it's pretty terrific.
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| 90 |
Salon.com
It's a deluxe vacation for adults with all frills included: glamorous settings, glamorous clothes, glamorous sex.
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| 83 |
Entertainment Weekly
A romp of romantic larceny built out of spare parts we've seen in countless other films.
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| 80 |
Empire
Bob McCabe
As absorbed as he is with his characters, McTiernan is still able to provide a couple of dazzling set pieces - the sustained opening heist (involving a pun-intended Trojan horse) is a doozy, while the Magritte-inspired, music-fuelled denouement is, well, inspired.
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| 80 |
The New Yorker
The movie is expert piffle for grownups, directed with great energy by John McTiernan and written with verve by Leslie Dixon and Kurt Wimmer.
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| 80 |
Los Angeles Times
A moderately diverting entertainment as sleek and aerodynamically sound as the glider its characters tool around in, it takes no extraordinary chances and delivers no major surprises.
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| 80 |
Newsweek
Slick, gaudily suave guilty pleasure of a movie.
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| 80 |
Washington Post
This is a movie that understands the larger-than-life appeal of the old-fashioned movie star and one of the movies' most primal appeals: beautiful people doing amusing things while talking about it cleverly.
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| 80 |
Washington Post
A full-throttle fantasy, about as heady a movie experience as it gets.
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| 80 |
Film.com
Strangely enough, this movie provides a lot of the James Bond veneer that has been missing from recent James Bond movies.
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| 80 |
Chicago Reader
It's a piece of disposable fluff -- though that's exactly what's so appealing about it.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Examiner
McTiernan's film mines what substance it has from its two stars, but is admittedly about keeping up its own appearances.
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| 75 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Non-cultists should enjoy this engaging and well-acted retread -- a film that develops its own charm as it goes along.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
What The Thomas Crown Affair has to sell audiences is a fantasy of the life of the super-rich who jet off to Martinique on the spur of the moment, and the super-smart who operate outside the rules.
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| 70 |
Village Voice
A sealskin-slick, cat-and-mouse romance-caper trifle with a hard-on for wealth that feels downright Trumpian.
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| 70 |
Variety
The characters in The Thomas Crown Affair are cool -- too cool, in fact, for the film to develop much of a pulse.
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| 70 |
The New York Times
Hard to believe that real emotion was involved anywhere in this story.
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| 63 |
Chicago Sun-Times
The remake has a superior caper but less chemistry.
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| 63 |
Chicago Tribune
Too expensive for its own good, too chic for comfort.
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| 60 |
LA Weekly
An improvement on the original, but that isn't saying much.
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| 60 |
TV Guide
It's enjoyable poppycock.
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| 50 |
ReelViews
This new interpretation does few things better than the original, and many things worse.
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| 40 |
Austin Chronicle
Why remake Norman Jewison's staunchly cool 1968 heist film in such a lackadaisical, uninspired manner?
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