The Spanish Prisoner Critic Reviews
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This is his sleekest and most engaging film thus far. If you like a good cat-and-mouse game with a keen ear for language, then go.Read the full review
The picture is a devilishly clever series of reversals that keeps you guessing to the very end.Read the full review
It's a treat to encounter the deadpan light-handedness with which Mamet goes about his business.Read the full review
The Spanish Prisoner resembles Alfred Hitchcock in the way that everything takes place in full view, on sunny beaches and in brightly lit rooms, with attractive people smilingly pulling the rug out from under the hero and revealing the abyss. Read the full review
For once, too, David Mamet the director outshines David Mamet the writer.Read the full review
Pure David Mamet is an acquired, but delicious, taste.Read the full review
The Spanish Prisoner is for anyone who likes to think and feel along with the characters.Read the full review
The Spanish Prisoner is the smoothest and most convincing of Mamet's elaborate charades and features intriguing performances by Steve Martin and Campbell Scott.Read the full review
The movie's surface of bright, brittle patter, initially off-putting, comes finally to serve as camouflage for the sinister movement of large and powerful forces. Read the full review
The story of an elaborate con game and the wholesale betrayal of an innocent man, it's also an unusually cold film that ends with a feeling of hollow soullessness. Read the full review
