2019 · comedy · crime · heist
The Hustle
Directed by Chris Addison1h 34m2019
Two female scam artists, one low rent and the other high class, compete to swindle a naïve tech prodigy out of his fortune. A remake of the 1988 comedy "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels."
Our read: The Hustle (2019) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded comedy · crime · heist entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured comedy / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- brisk
Watching The Hustle tonight? Spin for your lens.
Everyone on the couch spins once and gets one craft to watch for. After the credits, compare what you caught.
Your lens for tonight
?
Everyone on the couch gets one craft to watch for. Spin the wheel to get yours. Sound on: the narrator reads your mission.
More info & search links
How The Hustle feels to watch.
Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a breezy con-artist comedy with two clashing scam queens.”
Skip it tonight — You need sharp wit or prefer the 1988 original's sophistication.
Eight films that feel like this one.
Closest in the twelve-axis space, not “people also liked”. All films like The Hustle, with why →
Discussion
Make it a movie night.
Pick a mood, get a film the whole couch will enjoy, and give everyone something to watch for.
Pick tonight's film →