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- 1961
- Approved
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 2 h 14 m
- 1961
- Approved
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 2 h 14 m
Summary An up-and-coming pool player plays a long-time champion in a single high-stakes match.
Directed By: Robert Rossen
Written By: Sidney Carroll, Walter Tevis, Robert Rossen
- 1961
- Approved
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 2 h 14 m
- 1961
- Approved
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 2 h 14 m
The Hustler
8.3
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Summary An up-and-coming pool player plays a long-time champion in a single high-stakes match.
Directed By: Robert Rossen
Written By: Sidney Carroll, Walter Tevis, Robert Rossen
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 18 Critic Reviews
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94% Positive
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6% Mixed
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 18 Critic Reviews
90
94% Positive
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
6% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Paul Newman won his Best Actor Oscar for its 1986 sequel, The Color of Money, but he executed an equally award-worthy turn in Robert Rossen’s jazzy, boozy pool-hall morality play.
There's a huge amount of style in this picture, but also a huge amount of substance underpinning it.
A wonderful hymn to the last true era when men of substance played pool with a vengeance.
The sequences crackle with vitality as well as setting subtly the characterizations and packing the explosives to be detonated later.
Dingy atmosphere and great performances make this a standout.
The fun in this moody, pounding, overlong, rewarding bring-down of a film is seeing Eddie’s curled lip of contempt, which he flashes at all the suckers, freeze into a rictus when he gets his.
Unfoldment of the screenplay, based on novel by Walter S. Tevis, is far overlength, and despite the excellence of Newman’s portrayal of the boozing pool hustler the sordid aspects of overall picture are strictly downbeat.
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 26 User Ratings
8.3
92% Positive
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Universal Acclaim
Based on 26 User Ratings
8.3
92% Positive
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