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The Good Thief

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France, United Kingdom, Ireland · 2003
Rated R · 1h 48m
Director Neil Jordan
Starring Nick Nolte, Tchéky Karyo, Saïd Taghmaoui, Gérard Darmon
Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller

A compulsive gambler plans the heist of his life - a priceless collection of art from the world-class Casino Riviera in Monte Carlo.

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L.A. Weekly by Ella Taylor

Indeed, The Good Thief is a fairy tale, not just in the plotted fun of the heist and counterheist, or in the clever twist thrown in at the end, but in the grandiloquent myth, so passionately espoused by Melville, of the crook as a man of honor and elegance.

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TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh

Propelled by a soundtrack as diverse as its international gallery of thieves, Jordan's cheerfully scruffy neo-noir caprice even lays on the religious imagery with a palette knife and sweetens Melville's ending without seeming terminally sappy.

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Village Voice by Michael Atkinson

His movie (Jordan's) winnows the original's existentialist fable into a busy caper thriller, copping plot devices from Soderbergh's "Ocean's 11" and even straining to Wong Kar-wai its camera's way around the fleshpots of Nice. It's all pizzazz, and the pizzazz is all borrowed.

75

USA Today by Mike Clark

For a movie that earns its R-rating for drug content and violence atop language and sexuality, it leaves you with the next thing to a mellow smile.

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