No, there’s no avoiding the truth. The farce is – for now, at least – dead, and it’s very unlikely that uninspired homages like Gambit will revive it.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 3, 2024

Never subtle and always over-the-top, nothing about this unnecessary remake suggests anything but a routine and painfully dull "madcap romp" in need of a distinct personality driving the production.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 15, 2022

...a disappointingly forgettable endeavor that could (and should) have been so much better.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 1, 2019

A gamble on Gambit may not come off for everyone, but the rewards are there for a lucky (and persistent) few.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 6, 2019

It feels like a film that's been cut down along the way in an attempt at commercial salvation.

| Original Score: C | Jun 6, 2016

Colin Firth is decidedly much better than the role and the lines he's given.

| May 10, 2016

So-so remake of '60s caper has slapstick, brief nudity.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 8, 2014

... feels like a first draft of a dusty script that was pulled from the bottom of a drawer without being polished prior to production.

| Jun 30, 2014

Firth and Diaz, game as they are, look lost and disappointed most of the time during Gambit, as though they pictured themselves making Burn After Reading, and instead found themselves in The Ladykillers.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | May 27, 2014

The director behind Soapdish and The Last Station is generally reliable, but he can't keep up with the Coens' fast paced dialogue.

| Original Score: D+ | May 23, 2014

Firth demonstrates flawless comic timing and a knack for gentle slapstick during many sequences that might have bombed with another actor playing Harry Deane.

| May 10, 2014

When the movie veers away from the verbal gymnastics of a bunch of colorful dopes out-dumbing one another and into overindulged farce, the specificity of the Coens' writing begins to fade.

| Original Score: C+ | May 1, 2014

This nominal remake of the 1966 art caper that starred Michael Caine and Shirley MacLaine has all the fizz of flat soda ...

| Apr 27, 2014

"Gambit" is a trans-Atlantic delivery of "meh."

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 24, 2014

Firth is solid as always. He fits his tailored suits and rectangular glasses to a T. Diaz fares less well.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 24, 2014

The right level of farce, tasteful nudity and general shenanigans for the film to not outstay its welcome, while admittedly not lingering long in the memory.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 9, 2013

It's a fair comedy that's inoffensive and evocative of a different era, filled with enough eccentricity and sharp delivery to embrace as pleasant nonsense from two screenwriters exceptionally skilled with such buffoonery.

| Original Score: B- | May 2, 2013

It's mirthless, languid and obvious. Well, you can relate.

| Nov 27, 2012

Remade from a 1966 romp starring Michael Caine and Shirley MacLaine, this con artist action-comedy is enjoyably silly but never much more than that.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 26, 2012

A flat-footed remake of a mildly amusing 1966 caper movie ...

| Nov 25, 2012