It’s not even bad enough to get needlessly angry over. It just exists; a stasis that’s probably more demeaning than if the film had been purely horrendous.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 14, 2024

..a decent time-passer…the humour is girlish, silly, and without the whiff of misogyny that makes the previous versions feel rather unpalatable today…

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 22, 2024

Whatever you want to call Chris Addison’s The Hustle — a remake, a reimagining, a lazy retread — either way, his film is unoriginal, uninspired, and unworthy of your time.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 20, 2022

Just as there is little more tedious in film than a comedy that is not funny, there is also little more tiresome than a crime caper that is predictable.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Nov 27, 2021

[A] disappointment.

| Sep 29, 2021

The film is merely a copy, but its updates make it feel very of the moment, and there are plenty of laughs along the way.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 15, 2021

The Hustle wants to tell the obvious jokes, and it's not nearly as satisfying as it should be.

| Feb 8, 2021

The most disappointing component of the film is the blandness of the cons.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Dec 7, 2020

The fact that the story goes nowhere is no fault of the leads, but of the writers. There's nothing there but repetitive predictability. Skip this one.

| Original Score: 1.5/4.0 | Nov 20, 2020

This remake fails to give an old con new life, delivering a re-heated product that has lost much of its comedic turns and tricks.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 28, 2020

All of the elegance of a giraffe on roller skates and all of the laughter of an evening talking intergalactic taxation with George Lucas.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 16, 2020

The Hustle feels laboriously long at 90 minutes, flubbing even the dumbest beats. Which is nuts, given DGA and Primetime Emmy-winning director Chris Addison has serious comedy smarts.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 16, 2020

The Hustle certainly has its moments, but its hobbled by a specific miscalculation in its casting, which still makes me sad to report.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 28, 2020

Two actors I really love fall prey to Hollywood's 'make a movie with an overused tired formula' machine. Sadly, a non-delivering train wreck without much humor.

| Original Score: 2.5/10 | Jul 13, 2020

The Hustle sells a big game but doesn't deliver, just like the title suggests.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 7, 2020

The Hustle is amusing, even, at times, laugh-out-loud funny, which thoroughly surprised me. What didn't surprise me was the fact that, try as it might, the movie never rose to the hilarious levels of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.

| Jun 28, 2020

The Hustle bungles a great opportunity to punch up and clobber patriarchal fundaments.

| May 12, 2020

At a time when bigger is automatically assumed to mean better at the cinema, these con artists hope that going small is the path to a big payoff.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 3, 2020

Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson are clearly trying but completely flounder with a terrible screenplay that meanders from set piece to set piece...

| Original Score: 2/10 | Jan 17, 2020

The Hustle is a good idea, and could work as a classic 80s comedy reworking, but this was kinda sad.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 10, 2020