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Reviews Counted:86
Fresh:47
Rotten:39
Average Rating:5.7/10
Consensus: Michael Caine's excellent performance makes Flawless something more than an average heist movie.
Runtime: 1 hr 49 mins
Genre: Dramas
US Box Office: $1,146,525
Synopsis: Michael Radford (IL POSTINO) brings an artful touch to Edward Anderson's screenplay with FLAWLESS, a serious account of a remarkable heist at London Diamond, one of the world's premier diamond... [More]
Starring: Demi Moore, Michael Caine, Lambert Wilson, Joss Ackland
Director: Michael Radford
Demi Moore is excellent as the catalyst for the crime caper with a profoundly personal motive, something we don't discover until late in the film, and Michael Caine is wonderfully dry as the office cleaner with an agenda
Top CriticFor the most part Radford turns in a hushed, marble-polished heist film with a genuine sense of tension and mystery
Demi Moore will do as the ghost of Hollywood past, rattling her jewelled accessories like a drag-queen Jacob Marley.
Revealing when it needs to be and unpredictable when you least expect it.
It's good disposable entertainment that offers the right mix of character identification, plot unpredictability, and suspense to keep viewers interested throughout.
For a movie about a diamond heist, Michael Radford's talky, 1960s-set Flawless lacks sparkle--despite strong period detail, earnest messages, and committed performances.
You will need a very sweet tooth for this kind of thing, and, to be quite frank, the heist itself is not dramatised all that excitingly or clearly. But I quite like thrillers featuring enormous circular vault doors.
Top CriticAs far as what the filmmakers constructed, the spirit of the title term is close enough to forgive blemishes that don't really spoil the fun.
If not worth its weight in gold (or diamonds), at least worth the price of a movie ticket.
A mediocre heist film with a preposterous finale.
Flawless is a gimcrack, a genre exercise, yet it's a confidence game in the best sense of the phrase. [Director] Radford knows the rules - when to bend them, when to break them, and when to play by them. That's an increasingly rare skill.
Where are the truth in titular advertising police when you need them?
The problem is that as heist movies go this is about as captivating as watching someone dodge a bus fare. Almost everything about the film is second-rate: the direction, the plotting, the intrusive modernist production design.
An enthralling bauble of many facets: part feminist thriller, part "howdunnit" mystery, and all good old-fashioned story.
a classy, smart, and fiendishly sly piece of filmmaking that keeps the audience on the edge of its seat
...a film that is at once a heist movie that feels sprung from its time and place and one that casts a modern eye on feminism, Apartheid and even health care...a solid little gem.
Terrific performances elevate this extremely low-key heist thriller into something thoroughly intriguing. It may never crank up much excitement, but the 1960s vibe it generates is very cool.
For about 100 of its 108 minutes, this film treats the viewer to a stylish, suspenseful roller coaster peppered with all manner of ugly, money-grubbing corporate types.
Cleverly written and brilliantly made ... the type of classy and tasteful British crime-drama that Caine has long been associated with.
Like many Christmases, the whole thing leaves you stressed, exasperated and longing to leave for home.
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