Synopsis
Two con artists try to swindle a stamp collector by selling him a sheet of counterfeit rare stamps (the "nine queens").
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Cast
- Ricardo DarínMarcos
- Gastón PaulsJuan
- Leticia BrédiceValéria
- Gabo CorreaConvenience Store Manager
- Pochi DucasseAunt
- Jorge NoyaAníbal
- María Mercedes VillagraConvenience Store Employee 2
- Ignasi AbadalVidal Gandolfo
- Carlos LanariMan on Cell Phone
- Tomás FonziFederico
- 90
The New York Times
The 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. - 88
Philadelphia Inquirer
Bielinsky's movie builds like a poker game in which the players, having invested everything, cannot afford to fold. - 88
Charlotte Observer
Has 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. - 83
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
It 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. - 80
Wall Street Journal
An accomplished and enjoyable Spanish-language debut feature by Fabían Bielinsky. - 80
Rolling Stone
Leaves you feeling tense and terrific. It's fun to be fooled. - 80
New York Magazine (Vulture)
If 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. - 75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Often 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.