While Sharper’s genius resides in its ability to successfully outwit its audience, at no point does it feel laboured or in the least predictable.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 3, 2023

Moore is tremendous; other performances vary perhaps a little more than they are meant to...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 25, 2023

A fun watch with friends and family or a solo evening’s light diversion, the kind you replay the next day in your head to see how it all fits together.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 22, 2023

There’s much to enjoy here.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 19, 2023

A fun thriller with lots of twists.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 18, 2023

At one point, circumstances threaten to turn a con-artist caper into something more desperate and dangerous, but here as elsewhere, dramatic urgency is sacrificed in the twisty pursuit of cleverness.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Feb 18, 2023

A quick, complex, yell-at-the-screen crime drama.

| Feb 17, 2023

Benjamin Caron’s Sharper, sleek but unsatisfying new thriller, needed to be a little smarter to work.

| Feb 17, 2023

The result is the cinematic equivalent of a literary page-turner. Each chapter has reveals that means the next chapter is a must-see.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 17, 2023

It's almost literally design philosophy as cinema... elevated by a whip-smart screenplay about conning the super-rich and a series of faultless central turns from Julianne Moore, Sebastian Stan and Justice Smith.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 17, 2023

It’s stylish and well-acted, and it does keep viewers guessing. It does its job well. It’s a pretty-looking puzzle.

| Feb 17, 2023

Even though the ending fizzles out, the star power of Julianne Moore and Sebastian Stan turns this tale of con artists on the hustle among Manhattan one-percenters into a sleek, sexy sophisticated thriller with twists that won’t quit.

| Feb 17, 2023

This pulpy, Manhattan-set thriller about confidence tricks and double crosses is mostly a hoot and so tidily executed it’s only later that you may find yourself questioning the plausibility of its wacky denouement.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 16, 2023

Great acting is a con game, of the highest order, and it’s a pleasure to be Moore’s mark.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 16, 2023

The film’s biggest trick might be casting Moore, Stan and the positively glowing Middleton and still never quite catching fire.

| Feb 16, 2023

In Sharper, we have to figure out who is conning whom and that puts a lot of pressure on the script.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 16, 2023

A silly and unabashedly camp thriller that is, frankly, exactly the kind of sleek, shenanigan-y frolic that bleak midwinter calls for.

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 15, 2023

Caron’s feature debut has the look and feel of a classic con movie. But not the cold, calculating soul.

| Feb 15, 2023

A fumbled ending lets the air out of what is otherwise a fun and quietly stylish caper.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 12, 2023

Sharper is a bloody good time, even when we can see those surprises coming right down Fifth Avenue.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 10, 2023