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NUMBERS
Box Office: $1,078,919
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CONSENSUS
Deliciously twist-filled, Nine Queens is a clever and satisfying crime caper.
CAST & CREW
Gaston Pauls, Ricardo Darin, Leticia Bredice
Directed by Fabian Bielinsky
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SYNOPSIS
"Nine Queens" is the story of two small-time swindlers, Juan (Gastón Pauls) and Marcos (Ricardo Darin), who team up after meeting in a convenience store and become involved in a half million dollar deal. more...
MPAA RATING
R, language
RUNTIME
1 hour, 55 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Apr 19, 2002
Video: Oct 1, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
Sony Pictures Classics
GENRE
Dramas, Foreign Films, Spanish, Scams And Cons, Thriller
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Nine Queens Site
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 "An engaging criminal romp that will have viewers guessing just who's being conned right up to the finale."
-- Rod Armstrong, REEL.COM
"While Bielinsky doesn't bring anything new to the table, he has a smartly engineered scheme and a good poker face, and he's mastered the essential art of misdirection."
-- Sean Axmaker, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
"We become complicit in our own seduction: We willingly let Bielinsky manipulate us."
-- Joe Baltake, SACRAMENTO BEE
"Nine Queens is exactly the sort of film Hollywood is always re-making and utterly ruining in the process. See it in this incarnation."
-- Liz Braun, JAM! MOVIES
"A fast paced and suspenseful Argentinian thriller about the shadow side of play."
-- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, SPIRITUALITY AND HEALTH
"Nine Queens is not only than a frighteningly capable debut and genre piece, but also a snapshot of a dangerous political situation on the verge of coming to a head."
-- Walter Chaw, FILM FREAK CENTRAL
"...a delicious crime drama on par with the slickest of Mamet."
-- David Cornelius, AMAZING COLOSSAL WEBSITE
"The movie is well crafted, and well executed. If you're paying attention, the "big twists" are pretty easy to guess - but that doesn't make the movie any less entertaining."
-- Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone, THEMOVIECHICKS.COM
"You may think you have figured out the con and the players in this debut film by Argentine director Fabian Bielinsky, but while you were thinking someone made off with your wallet."
-- Duane Dudek, MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
"A must-see for the David Mamet enthusiast and for anyone who appreciates intelligent, stylish moviemaking."
-- Curtis Edmonds, TXREVIEWS.COM
"Nothing's at stake, just a twisty double-cross you can smell a mile away--still, the derivative Nine Queens is lots of fun."
-- Ed Gonzalez, SLANT MAGAZINE
"Feeling like a dope has rarely been more fun than it is in Nine Queens."
-- Chris Hewitt, ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS
"Bielinsky's script is slick and fiendishly clever, with seemingly a twist a minute."
-- Jim Lane, SACRAMENTO NEWS & REVIEW
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"Evokes the style and flash of the double-cross that made Mamet’s "House of Games" and last fall’s "Heist" so much fun."
-- Jeffrey Bruner, DES MOINES REGISTER
"An incredibly clever and superbly paced caper filled with scams within scams within scams."
-- Robert W. Butler, KANSAS CITY STAR
 "tale will be all too familiar for anyone who's seen George Roy Hill's 1973 film, "The Sting.""
-- Laura Clifford, REELING REVIEWS
"Despite its flaws ... Belinsky is still able to create an engaging story that keeps you guessing at almost every turn."
-- Warren Curry, FILMCRITIC.COM
"A welcome addition to the genre."
-- Tom Dawson, BBCI FILMS
"Clever but not especially compelling."
-- Daniel Eagan, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
"At its sliming, sidewinding best, Nine Queens rivals those modern beauties about sneak-cheats, House of Games, The Swindle and The Grifters."
-- David Elliott, SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
"As clever as a firkin full of simians and as stylish as they come, writer-director Fabian Bielensky has fashioned what may just be at the top of the list of con movies."
-- Ken Hanke, MOUNTAIN XPRESS (ASHEVILLE, NC)
"If you dig on David Mamet's mind tricks...rent this movie and enjoy!"
-- JoBlo, JOBLO'S MOVIE EMPORIUM
"A story full of surprises, defined by the use of interesting camera utilization and visual motifs."
-- Jon Lap, APOLLO GUIDE
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FRESH 96%
Avg. Rating: 8.3/10 |
"Ingenious and charming."
-- John Anderson, NEWSDAY
"Has a customarily jovial air but a deficit of flim-flam inventiveness."
-- Michael Atkinson, VILLAGE VOICE
"An elegant and sly deadpan comedy."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"As tricky and satisfying as any of David Mamet's airless cinematic shell games."
-- Owen Gleiberman, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"Reminiscent of David Mamet's elaborate screen bluffs -- only livelier, more playful."
-- Edward Guthmann, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"Bielinsky is a filmmaker of impressive talent."
-- Eric Harrison, HOUSTON CHRONICLE
"The kind of movie that seduces you into becoming putty in its manipulative card-sharking hands and making you enjoy being taken in by its shameless contrivance."
-- Stephen Holden, NEW YORK TIMES
"When you think you've figured out Bielinsky's great game, that's when you're in the most trouble: He's the con, and you're just the mark."
-- Stephen Hunter, WASHINGTON POST
"As an entertainment, the movie keeps you diverted and best of all, it lightens your wallet without leaving a sting."
-- Liam Lacey, GLOBE AND MAIL
"This clever caper movie has twists worthy of David Mamet and is enormous fun for thinking audiences."
-- Lou Lumenick, NEW YORK POST
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"I was amused and entertained by the unfolding of Bielinsky's cleverly constructed scenario, and greatly impressed by the skill of the actors involved in the enterprise."
-- Joe Leydon, SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
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* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
* Certain "Nine Queens" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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