| 75 |
Chicago Sun-Times
A preposterous plot, but it's not about a plot, it's about acting.
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| 75 |
Baltimore Sun
It's just another modest, unsurprising little heist flick. So why is it so much fun? Newman.
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| 75 |
Portland Oregonian
A light, old-fashioned, likable film that capitalizes on the personae of its three key performers and a sort of playfulness.
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| 75 |
Boston Globe
The film never drags, but one of the enjoyable things about it is its way of taking its time letting us get to know and savor the characters.
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| 75 |
New York Post
The Coen brothers might have done something inspired with this, but director Kanievska... turns out a more modestly entertaining little low-budget movie.
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| 70 |
The New York Times
Coasts to a smooth, frictionless stop, but its star doesn't; he works as if his career depended on this movie.
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| 67 |
Austin Chronicle
Ultimately a fluffy bit of caper-noir, the success of Where the Money Is rests heavily with Old Blue Eyes.
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| 67 |
Entertainment Weekly
I don't know that Where the Money Is would work at all were it not for what we, the audience, bring into the theater.
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| 63 |
New York Daily News
The film makers are so anxious to please their audience that they turn the last act into a preposterous cat-and-mouse game that nullifies the integrity of the story.
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| 63 |
Charlotte Observer
Maybe this is a case of too many cooks spoiling a simple broth: The movie had four producers, five executive producers, three writers (credited ones, anyhow) and three editors.
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| 63 |
Chicago Tribune
A wildly improbable story that neither Newman nor co-stars Fiorentino and Mulroney, for all their panache and chemistry, can make much sense of it.
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| 63 |
USA Today
Easygoing and easy to take, the movie isn't much.
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| 60 |
TV Guide
There's a caper and there are some laughs, but this isn't a larky caper flick; it's a pulpy little story that could at any minute go straight to hell.
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| 60 |
LA Weekly
The romance and sheer fun that Where the Money Is packs into its swift 89 minutes follow from the sweet surprise that neither is threatened by the other.
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| 58 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
It's a lifeless little caper piece that never develops the magic and intellectual fascination it needs to bond with an audience.
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| 52 |
Mr. Showbiz
Richard T. Jameson
Hazards nothing to speak of and asks chiefly to be congratulated for its modesty.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Examiner
Craig Marine
If you haven't taken your mother to a movie in a while, this is the ticket, with its PG-13 rating, lack of violence and like that.
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| 50 |
Film.com
Utterly lacks the spark that makes caper movies fun.
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| 50 |
Christian Science Monitor
Newman's magnetic face isn't enough to raise this intermittently amusing thriller above the ordinary caper-comedy crowd.
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| 50 |
Rolling Stone
With Newman, the movie emerges as a lively character piece with flashes of humor and grace.
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| 50 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
Leaves you in no doubt of where the talent is in what would otherwise be a throwaway picture.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle
A forced, implausible flick that loses its energy as it tries to gain momentum.
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| 50 |
Film.com
There's very little here that rises above the level of a competent straight-to-video picture, except that whenever Paul Newman and Linda Fiorentino are onscreen together they create something special.
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| 40 |
Los Angeles Times
The only way the film could have had a prayer of working--and thereby tapping its stars' considerable strengths--is by taking a much harder edge and going for dark, even bleak humor.
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| 40 |
Washington Post
The bad news? The story, which rumbles along like an unattended wheelchair on a gently sloping sidewalk.
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| 40 |
Salon.com
Lacks any layers beyond its own amiable inconsequentiality. It needs the spark of the distinctively American slapstick craziness that has distinguished Frye's previous work.
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| 38 |
Miami Herald
The unrelentingly dull Where the Money Is tests his (Newman's) legendary charisma in a way no actor could overcome.
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| 30 |
Dallas Observer
Slips by quickly enough, but it never engages our interest more than passingly.
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| 30 |
Chicago Reader
This caper movie starts off as enjoyable guff before turning strictly formulaic and winding up as unenjoyable guff.
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| 30 |
Village Voice
A caper film hardly worthy of his (Newman's) presence.
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| 20 |
Variety
Newman's charismatic, multishaded performance elevates the hodgepodge caper comedy a couple of notches above its preposterous plotting and self-consciously movieish texture.
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