Script and direction play safe throughout.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 20, 2019

Coolly hypnotic, the lean British sleeper Croupier is a reminder that movies don't have to wave their arms and scream to hold our attention.

| Mar 6, 2018

But it's Clive Owen, who was so fine as the homosexual imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp in "Bent," who steals the show. If you need an actor who emotes thunderstorms while his flesh is as still as a spring day, look no further.

| May 26, 2016

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 19, 2002

For once here is a British film that is both tough and intelligent, and so well-researched that it will probably tell you more about how casinos work than had it been a documentary.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 5, 2001

It's more of an art movie than a thriller, but it's still gripping, persuasive, unsettling stuff.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 5, 2001

Croupier is taut, tense and enthralling, as smart and surprising as its protagonist.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | May 10, 2001

Gambling and gamblers are a movie staple, but Croupier comes at the sport and its population from a fresh and, finally, rewardingly wide perspective.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Owen is superb.

| Original Score: A- | Jan 1, 2000

It's very cool. It's only kind of good.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2000

For 95 percent of the way, it is an engrossing tour of an attractively seamy side of life and a fascinating character study, despite having a novelist for a hero.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Clive Owen conveys a sharp, cynical intelligence that rolls off the screen in waves whenever he widens his glittering blue eyes.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Not since 1971's Get Carter has British director Mike Hodges made a movie as deep, dark and compelling as this thriller.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

The choice of Clive Owen as the star is a good one. He's got the same sort of physical reserve as Sean Connery in the Bond pictures.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Don't let Croupier go by without a look.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Polished and adroit ado about next to nothing, Hodges's film owes everything to Owen, who nails the vaguely unsavory, unreadable, half-lidded hunks that inhabit every profitable entertainment-industry outpost.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Viewers who stick with it will be rewarded, not only by Owen's masterful turn, but by Hodges' prickly, not-quite-a-surprise ending.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2000