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Matchstick Men

2003

Ridley Scott

Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell, Alison Lohman, Bruce McGill ...

6.4

23,421

Comedy. Drama Meet Roy and Frank, a couple of pros at the small-time con. What Roy, a veteran of the grift, and Frank, his ambitious protégé, are swindling – make that selling – these days are “water filtration systems,” bargain-basement water filters bought by unsuspecting people who pay ten times their value in order to win bogus prizes like cars, jewelry and overseas vacations… which they never collect. These scams net the flim-flam men a few ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"[It] tells three stories, each one intriguing enough to supply a movie (...) The screenplay for 'Matchstick Men' is an achievement of Oscar calibre (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"It can be quite enjoyable, if also a little exhausting, to watch Mr. Cage act crazy (...) [It is] both entertaining and empty"	NEU
United Kingdom	Ian Nathan Empire	"Scott tucks away his visual athletics in favour of something leisurely and quietly devastating. It's ultimately far more cunning a script than we can reveal here (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Keith Phipps AV Club	"What's truly impressive is 'Matchstick Men's ability to capture the emotions that drive the machinery"	POS
United States	James Berardinelli ReelViews	"'Matchstick Men' is the first winner of the fall movie season - a welcome antidote to the summer's mindless incoherence (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS

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