Nine Queens

    Nine Queens
    2000

    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

    Recommendations

    • 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.

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