| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 7, 2011

There's little by way of thrills. Still, as a caper with a great cast and clever premise, Flawless works, despite its, um, flaws.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 28, 2008

The problem is that as heist movies go this is about as captivating as watching someone dodge a bus fare. Almost everything about the film is second-rate: the direction, the plotting, the intrusive modernist production design.

| Original Score: 2/6 | Nov 28, 2008

Fatuous and soulless.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 28, 2008

You will need a very sweet tooth for this kind of thing, and, to be quite frank, the heist itself is not dramatised all that excitingly or clearly. But I quite like thrillers featuring enormous circular vault doors.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 28, 2008

Calling a diamond-heist movie Flawless is a valiant choice - especially when it's anything but. Suspense is essential to this genre, but here you couldn't care less what happens next.

| Nov 28, 2008

Demi Moore will do as the ghost of Hollywood past, rattling her jewelled accessories like a drag-queen Jacob Marley.

| Nov 28, 2008

If only the plot was as sleek.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 28, 2008

A creaky, below-par Brit heist caper that belongs in a dusty vault itself.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 28, 2008

Yet for all the imperfections, Flawless is a film you find yourself rooting for. Heists involving a keen sense of history are pleasant to stumble across.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 28, 2008

For about 100 of its 108 minutes, this film treats the viewer to a stylish, suspenseful roller coaster peppered with all manner of ugly, money-grubbing corporate types.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 16, 2008

Screenwriter Edward Anderson drops the South African angle in favor of more conventional developments and has a hard time bringing this across the finish line without a number of implausibilities.

| Apr 25, 2008

[It's got] some neat little twists and turns.

Full Review | Mar 31, 2008

Those of us who'll happily watch Caine in pretty much anything will find enough pleasures here.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 28, 2008

The plot contortions that very slowly unfold under Michael Radford's arthritic direction in Flawless are not much...entertaining.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 28, 2008

There is a nice sense of style, and appreciation for tense face-to-face confrontations among characters trying to ignore the temptations around them. It's sort of the opposite of the current robbery flick The Bank Job - all substance and no flash.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 28, 2008

A nicely made if slightly stodgy jewel heist flick that offers Michael Caine one more juicy, low-key role and Demi Moore another step back up the ladder to career revival.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 28, 2008

Flawless is a gimcrack, a genre exercise, yet it's a confidence game in the best sense of the phrase. [Director] Radford knows the rules - when to bend them, when to break them, and when to play by them. That's an increasingly rare skill.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 28, 2008

Flawless, directed with a fine eye by Michael Radford, is a diamond-heist thriller that will make you nostalgic for the smart, classy caper films of a certain era.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 28, 2008