When an armed, masked gang enter a Manhattan bank, lock the doors and take hostages, the detective assigned to effect their release enters negotiations preoccupied with corruption charges he is facing.
Even past the midway point, it's all working -- it's taut, it's funny, it's trenchant, it's stylish. And then it isn't.
– Rick Groen,
Globe and Mail,
24 Mar 2006
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It's very satisfying.
– Richard Roeper,
Ebert & Roeper,
28 Mar 2006
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I gloried in the sheer spectacle of Jodie Foster as Madeline White, an exquisitely groomed, fearlessly feline fixer striding on her high heels and her high horse into one supposedly perilous situation after another.
– Andrew Sarris,
New York Observer,
5 Apr 2006
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As unexpected as some of its plot twists is the fact that this unapologetic genre movie was directed by Spike Lee, who has never sold himself as Mr. Entertainment. But here it is, a Spike Lee joint that's downright fun.
– David Ansen,
Newsweek,
1 Nov 2007
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[A] wily thriller, which revitalizes a familiar premise by turning it inside out.