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Rififi (re-release)
Rialto Pictures
MPAA RATING: Not rated
Starring
Jean Servais,
Carl Mohner,
Robert Manuel,
Jules Dassin,
Marie Sabouret,
and
Janine Darcey
A reissue of a classic French caper thriller in which Tony, fresh out of prison, teams with three cohorts to pull off a major jewel heist which goes awry. The film's title is slang for "rough stuff," and it's robbery sequence is famous for its exciting, completely silent robbery scene.
| GENRE(S): |
Crime
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Jules Dassin
René Wheeler
Auguste Le Breton (also novel)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Jules Dassin
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: April 24, 2001
Video: April 24, 2001
Theatrical: July 21, 2000
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| RUNNING TIME: |
115 minutes, BW |
| ORIGIN: |
France |
| LANGUAGE(S): |
French (with English subtitles) |
Originally released in 1955. Director Jules Dassin took home the Best Director award at Cannes that year.

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
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Among the picture's many surprises is a superb robbery scene filmed in a near-total silence that contrasts exhilaratingly with the noisy flamboyance of more recent films in this venerable genre.

100
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
It's terse, atmospheric, fatalistic, with vertiginous camera angles and edits offsetting its gray documentary flatness.

100
Philadelphia Inquirer
Desmond Ryan
The new print does justice to Philippe Agostini's splendidly atmospheric cinematography.

100
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
No matter how many heists you've seen, how many gangs you've watched fall apart or how many aging crooks you've seen walk up a mean street to a violent destiny, Rififi never loses its ruthless grace and force.

100
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
The granddaddy of all caper/heist movies. The work that defined the genre for the subsequent four decades of filmmakers, none of whom was able to surpass it for style or suspense.

100
San Francisco Examiner
G. Allen Johnson
A sweaty-browed exercise in precision filmmaking, but one that doesn't cheat you with wisps of tension and the pretense of attitude.

100
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
But the human elements -- jealousy, anger, weakness, fortitude, loyalty, vengeance and honor, all acted out by a resolutely realistic cast -- make the movie extraordinary.

100
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
Rififi, with its stark visuals, dark humor and constrained performances, earned Dassin the Best Director nod at the Cannes Film Festival and a secure place in film history.

100
TV Guide
Frank Lovece
Manages to inject more than a little humor into this tension-filled genre classic.

100
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
It becomes as savage as ''Reservoir Dogs,'' ''The Killing,'' or any of the other dozens of films over which it still casts a shadow.

100
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
One of the great crime thrillers, the benchmark all succeeding heist films have been measured against, it's no musty museum piece but a driving, compelling piece of work, redolent of the air of human frailty and fatalistic doom.

90
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
A vivid exercise in hokum that more or less invented the idea of French film noir...and not just for Americans.

70
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
The opening half-hour--the burglary of a jewelry store, filmed in meticulous detail--is as good as its inspiration in The Asphalt Jungle, but the film turns moralistic and sour in the last half, when the thieves fall out.


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