Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George tells his restless wife about the scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he works, she hatches a plot of her own.
Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award1 nomination total
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
An engrossing little adventure.
– A.H. Weiler,
New York Times,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
Characteristically Kubrick in both its mechanistic coldness and its vision of human endeavour undone by greed and deceit, this noir-ish heist movie is nevertheless far more satisfying than most of his later work.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
9 Feb 2006
fresh:
Arguably Stanley Kubrick's most perfectly conceived and executed film.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
8 May 2007
fresh:
[The film] at first tends to be somewhat confusing, soon settles into a tense and suspenseful vein which carries through to an unexpected and ironic windup.