Rolling Stone
"...Ricardo Darin gives a seductively low-key performance....NINE QUEENS leaves you feeling tense and terrific..." 04/25/2002 p.84New York Times
"...The movie combines Hitchcock's winking tongue-in-cheek vision of a paranoid universe where everyone may be part of an elaborate conspiracy with Mr. Mamet's obsession with the finer points of gamesmanship and con artistry..." 04/19/2002 p.E25 Los Angeles Times
"...A deliciously funny and fiendishly clever con-man comedy that begins on a note of ingenuity that it then sustains with the tension of a high-wire act..." 04/19/2002 p.C14 Total Film
"...It's propulsive enough to take you for a ride, but with a political undercut to give it ballast..." 08/01/2002 p.101 Sight and Sound
"...Ingenious....Bielinsky delights in pulling the carpet from under the audience's feet..." 08/01/2002 p.46 Chicago Sun-Times
"...As one layer after another reveals a different reality beneath, we watch in bemused admiration..." 06/02/2002 p.6 Entertainment Weekly
"...Splendid....NINE QUEENS is a caper movie with an implicit, despairing vision of Argentina, yet its ambience of authority works on pure edge-of-the-moment dramatic terms as well..." 04/26/2002 p.119 San Francisco Examiner 8 of 10
With all the sly efficiency of a three-card monte dealer, Nine Queens proceeds at brisk clip through the intricacies of the master con, craftily forging a chain of plots and counterplots, role-playing and role-reversal, as the mismatched partners set their perfect plan into motion, and desperately improvise whenever something seemingly unforeseen goes wrong. - Joe Leydon
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