David O. Russell’s ‘American Hustle’ has received rave reviews as well as seven Golden Globe nominations. Find out what critics have to say about the Oscar-buzzed comedy-drama which stars Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Jennifer Lawrence, and Jeremy Renner.
To say critics herald the latest movie by director David O. Russell is an understatement. ‘American Hustle’ focuses on con artists and is based on the true story of the FBI’s 1970s Abscam sting operation whose targets included elected officials and as such brought down several congressmen and a U.S. senator. As such it sees Christian Bale’s character, the con artist Irving Rosenfeld and his con artist girlfriend Sydney Prosser, portrayed by Amy Adams (picture above), unwillingly and of necessity working with FBI agent Richie DiMaso, portrayed by Bradley Cooper.
‘American Hustle’ received seven Golden Globe Award nominations, and it has been Oscar-buzzed for months. It won’t be the first time Russell has seen one of his movie sweep the major nominations. His “Silver Linings Playbook” received eight Oscar nominations — including Best Picture and Best Director, and saw Jennifer Lawrence win the Best Actress Oscar. He also directed “The Fighter” which received seven Oscar nods and saw Christian Bale and Melissa Leo win Best Supporting Actor and Actress respectively.
The critics have much to say. Here’s a roundup.
“… “American Hustle” offers so many easy pleasures that people may not think of it as a work of art, but it is. In the world that Russell has created, if you don’t come to play you’re not fully alive. An art devoted to appetite has as much right to screen immortality as the most austere formal invention.….”– The New Yorker
“…the director here is David O. Russell, who, more than any other contemporary American filmmaker, has reinvigorated screwball comedy, partly by insisting that men and women talk to one another. To that end, that chatter, written by Mr. Russell and Eric Warren Singer, is fast, dirty, intemperate, hilarious and largely in service to the art of the con, specifically the Abscam scandal that almost incidentally inspired the story.….” — The New York Times
“… Last year it was “Silver Linings Playbook,” which was sensationally fresh and funny. This year it’s “American Hustle,” which is sensationally fresh and funny in different ways. How does the guy do it? Where does he find the energy—not just his own, which seems to be infinitely renewable these days, but the comic energy that sustains his five stars? All of them—Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence and Jeremy Renner—are at the top of their game in a hurtling roundelay that Eric Singer and the director based ever so vaguely on Abscam.…..” — The Wall Street Journal
“….The best way we can think of to get through 140 minutes of your life would be to see American Hustle, a balls-out story about political corruption that director and co-writer David O. Russell turned into a crazy, conniving comedy: history replayed as sparkling farce.….” — Time
“…. Russell has made a rangy, exuberant caper movie set in late-1970s New Jersey, with heavy overtones of the two great Martin Scorsese-Nicholas Pileggi collaborations, Goodfellas and Casino….And this is without question an actors’ movie. Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence are all now paid-up members of the Russell repertory company, and they throw themselves into their roles here with gleeful, bungee-jumping abandon.” — The Telegraph
“…..His dizzying, outlandishly entertaining “American Hustle” is a 21-first century screwball farce about 20th-century con men, scam artists and those who dream of living large, a film that is big hearted and off the wall in equal measure.….” — L.A. Times
“…..You watch the explosively entertaining, dramatically gripping American Hustle on a cinematic high. That’s David O. Russell for you. The up-for-anything director of Spanking the Monkey, Flirting With Disaster, Three Kings, I Heart Huckabees, The Fighter and Silver Linings Playbook gets you drunk on movies, on their heat, their heart, their hum. American Hustle moves fast and talks faster, sometimes tripping on its ambitions, but it’s always vibrantly alive.….” — Rolling Stone
‘American Hustle’ opens in theaters in wide release on December 20th and in limited release on December 13th. It also costars Louis C.K., Michael Peña, Jack Huston, Elisabeth Röhm, Erica McDermott, Melissa McMeekin and others.
See red carpet photos from the New York premiere as well as the official trailer below.
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