1. It's a sticky-suave erotic portrait of a man swaggering his way to the bottom of the proverbial barrel.
2. There's a sad, compulsive, edge-of-the-abyss desperation to Nick Nolte's intuitive and informed performance...
3. This is a movie for which you want to give an award to the casting director, Susie Figgis.
4. We came, we saw, we forgot. Plenty of smoke but no fire in 'The Good Thief'
5. With his haggard good looks and bearish presence, Nolte is the main event in this colorful three-ring circus of a heist picture.
6. [Nolte] could not be cast more perfectly.
7. A stunning intro for a Georgian (Russia) beauty whose tantalizing assuredness is a major contribution to the movie. Men will swoon (and write rhapsodically) for this engaging seductress...
8. The South of France has rarely looked so grim and inviting as it does in Neil Jordan's new film, The Good Thief.
9. If director Neil Jordan was going for criminal cool, he hit the jackpot with The Good Thief.
10. Jordan has made a film that is both traditional enough to hold those moviegoers who don't catch its kickiness, and cinematic enough to hook those in thrall of 'camera art.'
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?
Bolstered by Nolte's strong performance, The Good Thief brims with seductive style.