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Inside Man

2006

Spike Lee

Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, Willem Dafoe ...

7.1

50,336

Mystery. Thriller Inside Man is the story of a tough cop, Detective Frazier (Denzel Washington), who matches wits with a clever bank robber, Dalton (Clive Owen), in a tense hostage drama. As the dangerous cat-and-mouse game unfolds, a wild card emerges: Madaline (Jodie Foster), hired by the bank's owner (Christopher Plummer), a power broker with a hidden agenda, who injects even more instability into an already volatile situation.

	Author	Review
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"Smartly plotted by newcomer Russell Gewirtz and smoothly directed by, of all people, Spike Lee, 'Inside Man' is a deft and satisfying entertainment"	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"Filled with playful noise and nonsense, clever feints and digressions, 'Inside Man' has a story to tell, but its most sustained pleasures come from its performances"	POS
United States	Joe Morgenstern The Wall Street Journal	"[It] boils with humor, surprise and dramatic energy."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The screenplay by Russell Gewirtz needs a few more runs through rewrite. Because the film was directed by Spike Lee, it is not without interest (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"The details of the plan are compelling (...) but what makes the film memorable is the salty, irreverent attitude of those forced to negotiate with these thugs."	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"The suspense crackles, the acting sizzles and the script, by promising first-timer Russell Gewirtz, keeps tossing surprises like grenades (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	James Berardinelli ReelViews	"It's watchable and occasionally compelling, but it will not stand out as one of 2006's great motion pictures (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Nev Pierce BBC	"Predictable and disappointing (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Sam Toy Empire	"A pacy, vigorous and frequently masterful take on a well-worn genre (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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