Hustlers review – J-Lo's stealing strippers saga is a vicarious thrill The multi-hyphenate star delivers a standout turn in a snappy, fact-based caper about strippers scamming Wall Street bankers ", https://twitter.com/ira/status/1170550020631744512, Entertainment Weekly: "Lopez (who seems to hold the center of every scene she’s in) and Wu bring a soulfulness and desperation to their roles that defy easy profiling. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/11/movies/hustlers-review.html Bring some dollar bills, because they deserve them. Elsewhere, rapper and ex-dancer Cardi B teaches Destiny how to give a lapdance, while a jaw-dropping striptease is soundtracked by Fiona Apple’s Criminal. Women account for 51% of moviegoers, yet they're 4% of directors and 15% of writers in the entire industry. Perhaps too reliant on the structure of the original article, which tells the events in flashback, the film wraps up a little hastily. What feels contemporary is the way it weaves in the impact of the 2008 financial crisis; Wall Street on its ass, seen from an upskirt vantage point. Last modified on Wed 18 Sep 2019 16.51 EDT. For all its razzle-dazzle, its pessimistic subtext reminded me of another downbeat, post-recession take on the entertainment industry, Steven Soderbergh’s Magic Mike. It took all of 20 minutes for my crowd, a small group of media and industry professionals, to drop all pretenses of professionalism and erupt in celebratory screams of unadulterated joy. Every Oscars season, there’s a movie that sneaks up on the pundits. After all, it's based on a true story that's inherently cinematic: A tale of New York City strippers who swindle Wall Street men out of their money after falling on hard times in the 2008 recession. Based on, and faithful to, a 2015 New York Magazine article by Jessica Pressler, Hustlers is a classically made film about capital – sexual, social and financial. And we need more women-led success stories like it in Hollywood. Brilliantly, though, the editing is teasing rather than explicit; Scafaria offers just enough of the girls and their bodies to get pulses racing without exploiting them or their story. Ad Choices, Critics Are Already Calling Hustlers the Movie of the Year. It's not necessarily what they aspired to, but they have responsibilities (kids, an aging grandmother, etc. A resourceful girl gang of exotic dancers sets out to “fleece” New York’s sleaziest fat cats, drugging their drinks and running up their credit card bills in an act of feminist liberation from both men and The Man. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement (updated 1/1/20) and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement (updated 1/1/20) and Your California Privacy Rights. ). If there’s any justice, Jennifer Lopez will receive her first Oscar nomination for channeling the ringleader Ramona as Erin Brockovich by way of Matthew McConaughey in Magic Mike.". Crazy Rich Asians’ Constance Wu plays foil to Lopez’s Ramona as the enjoyably unreliable ingenue Destiny, with Lopez harnessing her natural warmth, swagger and athleticism both on the pole and off. To revisit this article, select My⁠ ⁠Account, then View saved stories. ", https://twitter.com/cashleelee/status/1170548590470672384, The Hollywood Reporter: "Hustlers delivers on its hype while consistently doing the unexpected. VanityFair: "Hustlers is a movie about work, and women, and economy, neither forgiving of its protagonists’ crimes nor those of the people they preyed upon. HUSTLERS is a crime comedy based on a New York Magazine article. Here's what critics have said so far about Hustlers. Jennifer Lopez Just Shared a Photo of Her First Scene With Cardi B in, Fresh Off the Boat’s Constance Wu Plays American Dream or Scream, Make Time For These 10 TV Shows and Movies This Week, J.Lo Asked Ruth Bader Ginsburg the Secret to a Happy Marriage, Entertainment Pictures / Alamy Stock Photo. The women in the film aren't one-dimensional objects dancing for patrons at a club: They're entrepreneurs, parents, friends, and fully-realized women trying to make the most of their line of work. Based closely on Jessica Pressler’s New York magazine article (with Julia Stiles serving as the journalist’s stand-in), “Hustlers” follows Constance Wu’s shy “new girl,” who goes by the stage name Destiny: a Queens native and child of immigrants navigating the world of Costco-sized strip clubs in The Big City.

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