Synopsis
A group of criminals are brought together under mysterious circumstances and have to work together to uncover what's really going on when their simple job goes completely sideways.
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Cast
- Don CheadleCurtis 'Curt' Goynes
- Benicio del ToroRonald Russo
- David HarbourMatt Wertz
- Jon HammDet. Joe Finney
- Ray LiottaFrank Capelli
- Brendan FraserDouglas 'Doug' Jones
- Kieran CulkinCharley Barnes
- Amy SeimetzMary Wertz
- Julia FoxVanessa Capelli
- Bill DukeAldrick Watkins
Recommendations
- 91
The Playlist
The complexity of the plotting overwhelms the picture a bit, which gets a little fuzzy in the middle – but it eventually forcefully snaps into focus, mostly by finding its spine in the simple notion that this is a movie about people under pressure. - 83
Consequence
Though the movie ultimately minds its business about a lot of the personal affairs it brings up, it imbues its characters with a bounty of implied off-screen life. No Sudden Move is somehow both a stylized genre exercise and part of a larger, less rigidly controlled tapestry that reveals itself as it goes. - 83
The A.V. Club
Movies routinely place characters in desperate, life-or-death situations, but rarely do we see them behave in a genuinely desperate way. No Sudden Move, a period crime drama written by Ed Solomon and directed by Steven Soderbergh, corrects this oversight in a way that’s at once hilarious and distressing. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
As each new wrinkle comes to light, Soderbergh keeps the action wound tight, zigging and zagging like a well-oiled machine. - 80
Screen Daily
The plotting gets confusing, but what’s crystal-clear is the filmmaker’s skill at concocting a grippingly pessimistic worldview that permeates his den of thieves. No Sudden Move makes an impact, even when it doesn’t always make sense. - 70
Arizona Republic
It’s when Soderbergh tries to say too much that he loses the thread a bit. That’s a shame, because he and the cast are so good at saying a lot with a little. - 67
IndieWire
Even as the movie devolves into an ineffectual shaggy-dog story shoehorned into a baffling and abrupt real-life backdrop, it remains a slick and enjoyable pastiche about messy outlaws adrift in a world designed to screw them over. - 63
The Associated Press
With so many murky motives, there’s little to care about, no way to anticipate the next con and no sense of real peril.
