Hustlers

Despite the overall stellar collaboration between Scafaria, Lopez, and Wu, “Hustlers” does have some head-scratching issues.

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Jennifer Lopez brings more than body glitter to smart strip-club drama Hustlers

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With a refreshingly dynamic soundtrack – an entire generation of cinephiles is about to become familiar with the songs of Scott Walker – and impressive costume design, it’s fair to say that almost everything about the film works as intended.

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Hustlers Proves Jennifer Lopez Has Been This Great All Along

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Leveraging every iota of her appeal to astonishing effect, Jennifer Lopez plays an enterprising dancer with an illegal get-rich scheme in Lorene Scafaria's true-crime romp.

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The multi-hyphenate star delivers a standout turn in a snappy, fact-based caper about strippers scamming Wall Street bankers

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Jennifer Lopez and Constance Wu star in Lorene Scafaria's film about a group of New York City strippers conning their Wall Street clientele.

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In director Lorene Scafaria’s ‘Hustlers,’ Lopez’s talent blossoms into something that takes your breath away

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Jennifer Lopez gives her best performance in years in the surprisingly bittersweet Hustlers

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The film is remarkable for capturing a brewing conflict between women while also celebrating their connection.

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A funny, naughty, enormously entertaining kick in the pants, promising to be an East Coast “Showgirls,” only to wind up a girls-rule “Goodfellas,” leading viewers into a vicariously thrilling underworld ruled by money, drugs, seduction and a sliding moral scale dictated by ruthless realpolitik.

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Jennifer Lopez struts onto the main stage of a cavernous strip club in “Hustlers” to the blaring tune of Fiona Apple’s late ‘90s anthem “Criminal”—the first line of which, “I’ve been a bad, bad girl,” suggests the knowing, playful tease to come.

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The film’s half-real, half-fantasy treatment of a fact-based story is almost really good. But “good enough” is good enough, thanks mostly to Jennifer Lopez dining out on her best role in years. She’s terrific.

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The story of dancers getting their piece of the 1% works more than it doesn’t, but it’s all about J. Lo

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As written and directed by Lorene Scafaria, the movie offers enough moments of sharp emotion and keen perception to keep anticipation high throughout. Yet the movie stays on the surface, to yield, for the most part, a simplistic, unexplored celebration of characters who are molded to fit the story’s amiable tone.

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Jennifer Lopez and Constance Wu star in the real-life story of New York strippers going after more than one-dollar tips.

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