Flawless 2007

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: For all its stodginess, however, Flawless is a reasonably good time, for one reason. The reason's name is Maurice Micklewhite, better known as Michael Caine. Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Those of us who'll happily watch Caine in pretty much anything will find enough pleasures here. Read more

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: Screenwriter Edward Anderson drops the South African angle in favor of more conventional developments and has a hard time bringing this across the finish line without a number of implausibilities. Read more

Nathan Rabin, AV Club: Michael Radford's leisurely paced Flawless digs itself into a deep, cavernous hole in its opening scene and never manages to crawl out of it. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: 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. Read more

Tom Long, Detroit News: A nicely made if slightly stodgy jewel heist flick that offers Michael Caine one more juicy, low-key role and Demi Moore another step back up the ladder to career revival. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: It's left to Caine to wink and nod at his own contribution to real caper classics of the 1960s and '70s, produced with more emphasis on fun and less on instructive fact-finding. Read more

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Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: Flawless is the sort of movie that tends to get called 'enjoyably old-fashioned,' except that there's nothing enjoyable about it. Read more

Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: The inspired pairing of Demi Moore and Michael Caine as a pair of thieves in the diamond-heist semi-caper movie Flawless goes a long way toward overcoming the film's slack, leisurely pacing. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: This is supposed to be a caper movie. Shouldn't it have a heroine who looks as if she could, you know, conceivably, caper? Read more

Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: There is a nice sense of style, and appreciation for tense face-to-face confrontations among characters trying to ignore the temptations around them. It's sort of the opposite of the current robbery flick The Bank Job - all substance and no flash. Read more

Rex Reed, New York Observer: Flawless is anything but. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: It's good disposable entertainment that offers the right mix of character identification, plot unpredictability, and suspense to keep viewers interested throughout. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Flawless is a fictional tale, but something in director Michael Radford's conscientious, methodical presentation gives it the feeling of true history. Watching it is like watching a historical dramatization of something that never really happened. Read more

Christy DeSmith, Minneapolis Star Tribune: 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. Read more

Mary Houlihan, Chicago Sun-Times: Flawless, directed with a fine eye by Michael Radford, is a diamond-heist thriller that will make you nostalgic for the smart, classy caper films of a certain era. Read more

Dave Calhoun, Time Out: 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. Read more

Jonathan Holland, Variety: Period detail is lovingly rendered (it's a nice touch to have people smoking in the cinema), while the technology is wonderfully '60s. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Flawless makes an entertainingly nostalgic journey to old Britain -- that black-and-white world we remember from long-ago Alfred Hitchcock and David Lean movies. Read more