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Thomas Crown Affair, The
MGM
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for some sexuality and language
Starring
Pierce Brosnan,
Rene Russo,
Denis Leary,
Ben Gazzara,
Frankie Faison,
Fritz Weaver,
Charles Keating,
and
Faye Dunaway
Based on the 1968 film of the same name, this sophisticated thriller combines the action of an art heist and an intense love story. (MGM)
| GENRE(S): |
Suspense/Thriller
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Leslie Dixon
Kurt Wimmer
Alan Trustman (story)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
John McTiernan
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: February 6, 2001
Video: May 1, 2001
Theatrical: August 6, 1999
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| RUNNING TIME: |
113 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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90
Slate
David Edelstein
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.

90
Salon.com
Charles Taylor
It's a deluxe vacation for adults with all frills included: glamorous settings, glamorous clothes, glamorous sex.

83
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
A romp of romantic larceny built out of spare parts we've seen in countless other films.

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.

80
The New Yorker
David Denby
The movie is expert piffle for grownups, directed with great energy by John McTiernan and written with verve by Leslie Dixon and Kurt Wimmer.

80
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
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.

80
Newsweek
David Ansen
Slick, gaudily suave guilty pleasure of a movie.

80
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
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.

80
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
A full-throttle fantasy, about as heady a movie experience as it gets.

80
Film.com
Robert Horton
Strangely enough, this movie provides a lot of the James Bond veneer that has been missing from recent James Bond movies.

80
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
It's a piece of disposable fluff -- though that's exactly what's so appealing about it.

75
San Francisco Examiner
Wesley Morris
McTiernan's film mines what substance it has from its two stars, but is admittedly about keeping up its own appearances.

75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
Non-cultists should enjoy this engaging and well-acted retread -- a film that develops its own charm as it goes along.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Bob Graham
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.

70
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
A sealskin-slick, cat-and-mouse romance-caper trifle with a hard-on for wealth that feels downright Trumpian.

70
Variety
Todd McCarthy
The characters in The Thomas Crown Affair are cool -- too cool, in fact, for the film to develop much of a pulse.

70
The New York Times
Elvis Mitchell
Hard to believe that real emotion was involved anywhere in this story.

63
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The remake has a superior caper but less chemistry.

63
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Too expensive for its own good, too chic for comfort.

60
LA Weekly
Manohla Dargis
An improvement on the original, but that isn't saying much.

60
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
It's enjoyable poppycock.

50
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
This new interpretation does few things better than the original, and many things worse.

40
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Why remake Norman Jewison's staunchly cool 1968 heist film in such a lackadaisical, uninspired manner?


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