76
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38 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 91The PlaylistJason BaileyThe PlaylistJason BaileyThe complexity of the plotting overwhelms the picture a bit, which gets a little fuzzy in the middle – but it eventually forcefully snaps into focus, mostly by finding its spine in the simple notion that this is a movie about people under pressure.
- 83ConsequenceJesse HassengerConsequenceJesse HassengerThough the movie ultimately minds its business about a lot of the personal affairs it brings up, it imbues its characters with a bounty of implied off-screen life. No Sudden Move is somehow both a stylized genre exercise and part of a larger, less rigidly controlled tapestry that reveals itself as it goes.
- 83The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloThe A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloMovies routinely place characters in desperate, life-or-death situations, but rarely do we see them behave in a genuinely desperate way. No Sudden Move, a period crime drama written by Ed Solomon and directed by Steven Soderbergh, corrects this oversight in a way that’s at once hilarious and distressing.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThe Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyAs each new wrinkle comes to light, Soderbergh keeps the action wound tight, zigging and zagging like a well-oiled machine.
- 80Screen DailyTim GriersonScreen DailyTim GriersonThe plotting gets confusing, but what’s crystal-clear is the filmmaker’s skill at concocting a grippingly pessimistic worldview that permeates his den of thieves. No Sudden Move makes an impact, even when it doesn’t always make sense.
- 70Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzArizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzIt’s when Soderbergh tries to say too much that he loses the thread a bit. That’s a shame, because he and the cast are so good at saying a lot with a little.
- 63The Associated PressMark KennedyThe Associated PressMark KennedyWith so many murky motives, there’s little to care about, no way to anticipate the next con and no sense of real peril.
- 60VarietyOwen GleibermanVarietyOwen GleibermanNo Sudden Move, for all its pleasures, doesn’t quite make the old seem new again.
- 60TheWrapAlonso DuraldeTheWrapAlonso DuraldeIf a movie’s going to take us to “Chinatown,” it needs to come up with a new and different path to get there. Instead, the film revels in its genre trappings, only to grab at gravitas in the last ten minutes with the sudden introduction of historical iniquities into the story.