2003 · drama · comedy · crime
Matchstick Men
Directed by Ridley Scott1h 56m2003
A phobic con artist and his protege are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the con artist's teenage daughter arrives unexpectedly.
Our read: Matchstick Men (2003) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded drama · comedy · crime entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured drama / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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