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37 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 88Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonChicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonThere's a zest and brilliance in Neil Jordan's racy heist thriller The Good Thief that makes it almost intoxicating to watch.
- 80The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe New York TimesA.O. ScottThe ultimate caper, a work of brazen ebullience.
- 80L.A. WeeklyElla TaylorL.A. WeeklyElla TaylorIndeed, The Good Thief is a fairy tale, not just in the plotted fun of the heist and counterheist, or in the clever twist thrown in at the end, but in the grandiloquent myth, so passionately espoused by Melville, of the crook as a man of honor and elegance.
- 75USA TodayMike ClarkUSA TodayMike ClarkFor a movie that earns its R-rating for drug content and violence atop language and sexuality, it leaves you with the next thing to a mellow smile.
- 70TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghPropelled by a soundtrack as diverse as its international gallery of thieves, Jordan's cheerfully scruffy neo-noir caprice even lays on the religious imagery with a palette knife and sweetens Melville's ending without seeming terminally sappy.
- 60Washington PostDesson ThomsonWashington PostDesson ThomsonIn the end, what started off as playful becomes tedious.
- 50Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittChristian Science MonitorDavid SterrittThe result is yet another remake that should send viewers scurrying to video stores for the original.
- 40Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonVillage VoiceMichael AtkinsonHis movie (Jordan's) winnows the original's existentialist fable into a busy caper thriller, copping plot devices from Soderbergh's "Ocean's 11" and even straining to Wong Kar-wai its camera's way around the fleshpots of Nice. It's all pizzazz, and the pizzazz is all borrowed.
- 40Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternWall Street JournalJoe MorgensternOf the original and the remake, only one film feels authentic, and it's not The Good Thief.
- 25Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanCharlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanIt's as French as a half-smoked Gauloise and, like a half-smoked Gauloise, it stinks.