The problems stem from ragged storytelling, a surfeit of silly epigrams and a jangle of accents and cultures that leaves you wondering where Mr. Nolte's strangulated crook fits in.

| Apr 4, 2018

The Good Thief is worth seeing, if only for Nolte's turn as the loveable de-toxing rogue.

| Jan 3, 2018

While Jordan's repeated freeze-frames try a little too hard for nonchalance, the overall cocktail of Gallic insouciance and American film noir grit delivers such relaxant properties you forgive a few foibles.

| Jun 24, 2006

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 27, 2003

Discount its distinctly casual approach to the mechanics of a multi-million Euro robbery, and it's not bad at all.

| Jul 25, 2003

Mr. Jordan has lovingly recreated much of what glittered in the hard French thrillers that once starred Delon and Belmondo, and provided a superbly customized vehicle for the salty charms of ashtray-voiced Nick Nolte.

Full Review | May 1, 2003

Great fun despite its deficiency as a presumed thriller.

| Apr 30, 2003

It's a heist film with a muddled plot, a character study with no personality.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 24, 2003

Rumpled and dissolute, Nolte shambles through this gracefully atmospheric crime film with a cool poignancy that verges on the comic.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 24, 2003

This is a movie for which you want to give an award to the casting director, Susie Figgis.

| Apr 22, 2003

With his haggard good looks and bearish presence, Nolte is the main event in this colorful three-ring circus of a heist picture.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 22, 2003

It's a sticky-suave erotic portrait of a man swaggering his way to the bottom of the proverbial barrel.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 20, 2003

The heist is the story's spine, the melody. But what's really interesting are the solo flights that branch off and the filigrees that embellish it.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Apr 18, 2003

Blurry, opiated, jagged with melancholy and stone cold beautiful.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 17, 2003

Nolte is perfectly cast as this charming loser. The problem is, he knows it.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Apr 17, 2003

Jordan delivers easily his most satisfying work since 1992's The Crying Game.

| Apr 15, 2003

[T]here probably isn't another actor in the world better suited to play a substance-abusing, world-weary charmer than Nick Nolte.

Full Review | Apr 14, 2003

There's not much to remember a few days later, but it's eye candy of a very high order.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 11, 2003

To the extent that it's a rhapsody on the theme of Nick Nolte, The Good Thief has considerable charm.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 11, 2003

Jordan's approach assumes a certain intelligence, and attentiveness, in his audience, but his joyride through the French Riviera always keeps us belted in.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 11, 2003