80
Metascore
30 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenThe 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.
- 88Philadelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyPhiladelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyBielinsky's movie builds like a poker game in which the players, having invested everything, cannot afford to fold.
- 88Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanCharlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanHas more twists than the Pacific Coast Highway and more layers than a stack of silver-dollar pancakes. If you can wrap your mind around one unlikely condition, the picture provides unalloyed pleasure for connoisseurs of cinematic con artists.
- 83Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean AxmakerSeattle Post-IntelligencerSean AxmakerIt may not keep you guessing to the end, but there are enough surprises and wry revelations, right down to the last play, to make this a most satisfying cinematic confidence game.
- 80Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternWall Street JournalJoe MorgensternAn accomplished and enjoyable Spanish-language debut feature by Fabían Bielinsky.
- 80Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversLeaves you feeling tense and terrific. It's fun to be fooled.
- 80New York Magazine (Vulture)Peter RainerNew York Magazine (Vulture)Peter RainerIf Nine Queens were a great film, instead of just a very good one, this rottenness would be so pervasive that it would burst the bounds of the plot; it would make us shudder.
- 75The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyOften more ingenious in appearance than fact. The hunter-gets-captured-by-the-game scenario is predictable and the sequence of shell games does not, when reconsidered, actually add up.
- 75Baltimore SunMichael SragowBaltimore SunMichael SragowThe movie may be Nine Queens, but it slakes your thirst for surprises and thrills because of its Nine Jokers.
- 40Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonVillage VoiceMichael AtkinsonHas a customarily jovial air but a deficit of flim-flam inventiveness.