Croupier 1998

Critics score:
98 / 100

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Ebert & Roeper: Read more

Robert Denerstein, Denver Rocky Mountain News: Read more

Susan Stark, Detroit News: Gambling and gamblers are a movie staple, but Croupier comes at the sport and its population from a fresh and, finally, rewardingly wide perspective. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: Clive Owen conveys a sharp, cynical intelligence that rolls off the screen in waves whenever he widens his glittering blue eyes. Read more

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Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Owen is superb. Read more

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James Berardinelli, ReelViews: With its fascinating, multi-layered plot, intelligent screenplay, and subtle-yet-undeniable tension building, Croupier is an engrossing, stylish thriller that never threatens to wear out its welcome. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The choice of Clive Owen as the star is a good one. He's got the same sort of physical reserve as Sean Connery in the Bond pictures. Read more

Bob Graham, San Francisco Chronicle: For 95 percent of the way, it is an engrossing tour of an attractively seamy side of life and a fascinating character study, despite having a novelist for a hero. Read more

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Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: Polished and adroit ado about next to nothing, Hodges's film owes everything to Owen, who nails the vaguely unsavory, unreadable, half-lidded hunks that inhabit every profitable entertainment-industry outpost. Read more

Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: It's very cool. It's only kind of good. Read more