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Sexy Beast

2000

Jonathan Glazer

Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley, Ian McShane, Amanda Redman ...

6.4

4,445

Thriller. Drama Ex-villain Gal Dove (Ray Winstone) has served his time behind bars and is blissfully retired to a Spanish villa paradise with a wife he adores. The sun drenched idyll is shattered by the arrival of his psychotic, gangster nemesis Don Logan (Ben Kingsley), who is intent on persuading Gal to return to London for one last big job. Desperate not to sacrifice his comfortable existence, Dove is drawn into an explosive battle of wills with ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"What makes the film an unusually satisfying genre exercise, apart from the director's youthful brio, is the gnarled authenticity of its cast."	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"This is one of the most purely enjoyable films I have seen for a long time (...) Work well it does, and this is partly down to a literate script with clever visual ideas"	POS
United States	Eddie Cockrell IndieWire	"It is Kingsley who dominates the film, with an audacious and completely mad reading of the demonic Logan"	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"My willingness to stay interested in the plot and be impressed by Kingsley's show-offy performance (...) was eventually undermined by the movie's violent editing and violent sound"	NEU
United Kingdom	William Thomas Empire	"A cracking central trio (...) and some truly original visual flourishes more than grouts the gaps (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Derek Elley Variety	"All dressed up with nowhere particular to go, 'Sexy Beast' is an often enjoyable, massively uneven Brit ganglander"	NEU

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