A small-time conman has his loyalties torn between his estranged mother and his new girlfriend, both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own angles to play.
The Grifters has generally received positive reviews.
Review of The Grifters (1990)
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Review of The Grifters (1990)
By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 08 Jul 2007
Review of The Grifters (1990)
By Mark R. Leeper (892) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 01 Jan 2000
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The Grifters was released in 1990 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 276 reviews, giving The Grifters (1990) an average rating of 74%.
Overall, film critics marginally prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 80%, compared to cinema-goers, who gave it a slightly lower average score of 75%.
With a score of 74%, The Grifters is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1990, which stands at 57%.
Other movies from 1990 with similar scores include films like Total Recall and The Hunt for Red October.
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