The Good Thief

indeed, this is a very arresting debut performance.....Highly talented Northern Irish director Neil Jordan (The End Of The Affair, The Crying Game, The Butcher Boy) has always been something of a visual stylist.... ... Full Review

Slightly overlong, and with a pace as sedate as Nolte's performance, The Good Thief is nonetheless a solid, appealing film.....sporadic but talented director Neil Jordan (The Crying Game, Butcher Boy) would tackle a heist flick as his latest project.....Neil Jordan has successfully married the heist film with a stylish sense of film noir..... ... Full Review

Nolte was perfect for the part....she gives a great performance here.....But, the stellar performance is Nick Nolte -.... ... Full Review

A crackling good heist movie set in the opulence of the Riviera, The Good Thief dazzles through all its twists and turns in a thrilling and satisfying nail-biter of a yarn filled with surprises. And the use of music is superb. ... Full Review

As such, it reflects the sorry state of Bob Montagnet (Nick Nolte), an American expatriate, heroin addict, and sometime gambler who, as the film opens, is feeling especially sad and wasted. For all its many deceptions and illusions, The Good Thief allows this to develop as if in a real world, where genuine affection and appreciation grant generosity rather than competition or arrogance. ... Full Review

So, while it's ever so much fun to regale you with what I'm reading, I think it's way past time that I start sharing the spotlight. ... Full Article

Gaynor Flynn | June 01, 2008 00:01 | Edited January 28, 2009 13:02 Tcheky Karyo has made a career out of providing bad guy muscle, but that all changes with his turn as a noble cop in Neil Jordan's The... ... Full Article

THE plots of art heist movies are about as multifarious as the canvases of the paintings pilfered by their main characters - the postmodern heroin-cool of Nick Nolte in "The Good Thief"; the playboy-billionaire boredom of Pierce Brosnan in "The... ... Full Article

The funny thing about existentialism is that, despite its focus on the individuals isolationism and negative relations with his environment, its also a philosophy that yields palpable connections between works of art and admirers of art. ... Full Article

With over 30 years of thesping under his belt, you'd think Nick Nolte would have learned by now how to project his lines. He's received a fair bit of praise for his performance in this inconsistent heist movie, but personally... ... Full Article

Neil Jordan's heist movie, The Good Thief , opened last year's San Sebastian Film Film Festival in Spain, where I saw it through a haze of jet lag, emerging with the impression that it was turgid, confused and almost three... ... Full Article