Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman

Easy Money is not merely an early-career curiosity. It's one of the best underworld films I've seen in years, and Kinnaman gives a fantastic performance in it.

Salon by Andrew O'Hehir

Easy Money may well be the crime film of the year, or the decade.

Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan

This jazzy crime melodrama is engrossing and exhilarating because of Espinosa's impressive command of a wide range of filmmaking skills.

Slate by Dana Stevens

Easy Money's big heist scene is the only action set piece so far this year that was so suspenseful I could feel my heartbeat in my ears.

Philadelphia Inquirer by Steven Rea

An English-language remake is in the works, but why wait for the Hollywood knockoff? Easy Money is the real thing: a great gangster pic.

Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

One of the most involving of the many first-rate thrillers that have come recently from Scandinavia.

IndieWire by Eric Kohn

While overlong and occasionally too reliant on a formulaic set of motives to drive the action forward, Easy Money retains its suave composure right through the engrossing finale.

Christian Science Monitor by Peter Rainer

Character is action, Scott Fitzgerald once wrote. It certainly is here.

The Playlist by Rodrigo Pérez

Swims forward with tenacious shark-like energy and therefore is sleek, efficient and utterly engaging.

Time by Richard Corliss

Well acted and acutely observed, the film doesn't try to be a conventionally satisfying coke-land action film.

The New York Times by Stephen Holden

In a director's note Mr. Espinosa describes his fascination with "the idea of thief's honor" and with portraying criminals who, from their point of view, "are trying to do good through their own ethics." And this soul-searching quest lends Easy Money a depth rarely found in gangster films.

Variety

Maria Karlsson's multilayered screenplay makes the film much more than just a crime thriller, beautifully incorporating themes of parents and children, misplaced values, and greed and corruption.

The Hollywood Reporter by John DeFore

A class-conscious Scandinavian crime film whose impact is dulled by some extraneous subplots, Daniél Espinosa's Easy Money nevertheless makes a solid vehicle for Joel Kinnaman.

Village Voice by Nick Pinkerton

A hit in its native Sweden as "Snabba Cash," the English title is a piece of cheap irony; this is a crime thriller where no one gets away clean, and every action has its irrevocable reaction.

Slant Magazine

The humanization of these antiheroic outlaws doesn't feel forced, but it does feel engineered, and there's never a viewer investment to match the story's wide expanse.

Time Out by David Fear

It's obvious from Easy Money why Espinosa would be going places. So long as he takes Kinnaman with him, the gentleman can have our hard-earned cash.

Boxoffice Magazine

Betrayals will occur and loyalties will be tested, but it's the audience that ends up ripped off.