New York Times
"...Entertaining, deadpan, seriocomic melodrama....Mamet's screenplay builds much like a whopping good poker game..." 10/11/1987 p.94New York Times
Included in the New York Times "10 Best Films of 1987" 12/27/1987 p.II, 23 Variety
"...Writer David Mamet's first trip behind the camera as director is entertaining good fun, an American film noir with Hitchcockian touches..." 09/09/1987 Film Comment
"...A real curve ball....Mamet has elevated the dialogue to the foreground....GAMES is smart..." 11/01/1987 p.61-4 Los Angeles Times
"...Coldly absorbing....Mamet gives us the plot in crisp layers....[The] dialogue -- subtly rhythmed, pungent, terrifically well written -- carries the movie..." 10/15/1987 p.C1 Chicago Sun-Times
"...Mamet's dialogue starts with the plain red bricks of reality, and mortars them into walls that are slightly askew..." 10/31/1999 p.5 Entertainment Weekly
"With a parlor-trick plot and neon-lit cinematography right out of Edward Hopper's NIGHTHAWKS, GAMES is a con within a con within a con." -- Grade: A- 08/31/2007 p.54 | 
