The Player 1992

Critics score:
98 / 100

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Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: [It's] supposed to be scathing, but the pleasure it affords is like what you get from watching the Oscars: celebrity spotting and in-jokes. Read more

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Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: A movie about today's Hollywood -- hilarious and heartless in about equal measure, and often at the same time. Read more

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Variety Staff, Variety: Mercilessly satiric yet good-natured, this enormously entertaining slam dunk quite possibly is the most resonant Hollywood saga since the days of Sunset Blvd. and The Bad and the Beautiful. Read more

Hal Hinson, Washington Post: Altman loves practical jokes, and The Player is his craftiest prank, his jolly last laugh. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: The Player is a rare commodity. It's brilliant and a guilty pleasure. Read more