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

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

Given the quality of the film, we must assume that these Coens are no relation to the siblings who make films that rarely encourage you to poke out your eyes with rusty scissors.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 24, 2012

The mood isn't so much vintage as instantly old-hat.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 23, 2012

Against odds the film is sometimes funny, bandying its dated tropes like a badge of pride.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 22, 2012

An awful lot of talent has been put to waste here.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 22, 2012

Make it stop! Make it stop! Oh please just make it stop!

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 22, 2012

Gambit's a mixed bowl of nuts, all told, but if there's nothing in it that raises so much as a chuckle, you may need chuckling practice.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 22, 2012

A few smiles and some fraying charm, but big laughs are missing. This just about gets away with it rather than romps off with the loot.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 19, 2012

'Gambit' is like drinking cheap, warm champagne from a plastic cup.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 13, 2012

Even with a script by the Coen brothers, and a classy international cast led by Colin Firth, this contemporary London caper movie falls far short of its potential even as a lightweight comic romp.

| Nov 8, 2012

Middling in every respect.

Full Review | Nov 8, 2012