Nueve reinas 2000

Critics score:
92 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Jonathan Perry, Boston Globe: A crackling, clever tour de force. Read more

Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: One of the most clever, most enjoyable thrillers in years. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: The kind of movie that seduces you into becoming putty in its manipulative card-sharking hands and making you enjoy being taken in by its shameless contrivance. Read more

John Anderson, Newsday: Ingenious and charming. Read more

Melanie McFarland, Seattle Times: The film seethes with a sense of something more sinister at work around us, building to the point that you're not sure who's getting played and who isn't. Read more

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: A deliciously funny and fiendishly clever con-man comedy that begins on a note of ingenuity that it then sustains with the tension of a high-wire act. Read more

Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: Bielinsky is a filmmaker of impressive talent. Read more

Steven Rosen, Denver Post: This is a fun and lively movie, the first of two heralding the arrival of the suave, seductive and slightly forlorn actor Darin to American audiences. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: As tricky and satisfying as any of David Mamet's airless cinematic shell games. Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: As an entertainment, the movie keeps you diverted and best of all, it lightens your wallet without leaving a sting. Read more

Jane Sumner, Dallas Morning News: Ingeniously constructed entertainment. Read more

Paul Malcolm, L.A. Weekly: Serves as further evidence that Argentina's film industry is at the forefront of a resurgent Latin American cinema. Read more

Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture: [Bielinsky's] made an honest movie about dishonesty. Read more

Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: Mr. Bielinsky has fashioned a wicked parable of the financial chaos in contemporary Argentina. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: An elegant and sly deadpan comedy. Read more

Jeff Stark, Salon.com: A people pleaser that makes use of dozens of great movie tricks and manages to sprinkle great lines throughout. Read more

Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle: Reminiscent of David Mamet's elaborate screen bluffs -- only livelier, more playful. Read more

Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: A slick and thoroughly enjoyable con-artist movie. Read more

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Read more

Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: If Nine Queens draws you on a journey that eventually leads up a garden path toward your own suckerhood, it's all the more pleasurable for having done so with such slick expertise. Read more

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Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: Has a customarily jovial air but a deficit of flim-flam inventiveness. Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: Blackly cynical and highly watchable. Read more