Nine Queens Critic Reviews

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Based upon 13 Critic Reviews
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USA Today | Claudia PuigAdd Critic to Favorites

If you want a brain puzzler that will ensure a lively conversation on the way home, Nine Queens is the real deal.Read the full review

San Francisco Chronicle | Edward GuthmannAdd Critic to Favorites

Fast-paced and unerringly surprising.Read the full review

Wall Street Journal | Joe MorgensternAdd Critic to Favorites

An accomplished and enjoyable Spanish-language debut feature by Fabían Bielinsky.Read the full review

Boston Globe | Jonathan PerryAdd Critic to Favorites

Elaborately layered movie about schemes and more schemes that pile up faster than chips on a blackjack table. The other half is realizing, about halfway through the film, that you won't figure it out until it's over.Read the full review

The Onion (A.V. Club) | Keith PhippsAdd Critic to Favorites

Bielinsky's debut is a fine con picture, but at its best, it achieves even more, presenting the profession as a lifestyle with almost existential ramifications.Read the full review

Los Angeles Times | Kevin ThomasAdd Critic to Favorites

Deliciously funny and fiendishly clever con-man comedy that begins on a note of ingenuity that it then sustains with the tension of a high-wire act.Read the full review

Washington Post | Michael O'SullivanAdd Critic to Favorites

Wickedly clever drama.Read the full review

Entertainment Weekly | Owen GleibermanAdd Critic to Favorites

As tricky and satisfying as any of David Mamet's airless cinematic shell games. Mamet's films are all plot and no atmosphere; this one has a squalid, urban-greed-meets-the-gutter mood that lends its filigreed cleverness an unusually resonant kick.Read the full review

Rolling Stone | Peter TraversAdd Critic to Favorites

Leaves you feeling tense and terrific. It's fun to be fooled.Read the full review

Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites

A con within a con within a con. There comes a time when we think we've gotten to the bottom, and then the floor gets pulled out again and we fall another level.Read the full review

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