Focus

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

Which is another way of saying that whatever pleasure there is to be had in Focus comes from the way Ficarra and Requa lay out information, filtering it through a generically slick style, and timing everything to an eclectic mix of classic rock chestnuts, Argentinean pop songs, and soul samples. ( Read More )

The only things he cant handle well, thanks to a dysfunctional family history, are attachments; like Robert De Niros Neil McCauley in Heat, hes prepared to walk away from anyone and anything at a moments notice. ( Read More )

Eric Kohn

It never loses the dazzling surface polish, but without trying to dig deeper, the movie strings us along in the hopes of something more, not unlike one of the cons at its center. ( Read More )

Its a perfectly fine conman movie that breezes along but offers nothing you didnt get in The Sting, The Grifters or Catch Me iI You Can. ( Read More )

Focus is a conman movie so wrapped up in its cons that it doesnt think enough about its man or the enigmatic woman by his side. ( Read More )