Critic consensus:Sleek, stylish, and painlessly diverting, The Thomas Crown Affair is a remake of uncommon charm.

Numbered reviews:1. Enjoyable!
2. In its sneaky and offhanded way, The Thomas Crown Affair is a tribute to the art of stealing beauty.
3. Full of inventiveness and audience pleasing twists, the story ends on an especially satisfying high note.
4. Much better than this year's Entrapment, and a great time killer for the above 20 demographic.
5. Those expecting a caper flick will be bored to tears by the film's sluggish pace, and will be chilled by the icy chemistry between the stars.
6. No one will mistake this middle brow venture for an art film.
7. A full-throttle fantasy!
8. A slick thriller with sizzling chemistry between Russo and Brosnan.
9. Visually slick and wonderful to watch.
10. McTiernan's camerawork in particular, though, gives the film the style to pull off what could have been just another remake!


Critic consensus:It doesn't offer any twists on the predictable courtroom thriller formula, but with a charming Matthew McConaughey leading its solid cast, The Lincoln Lawyer offers briskly enjoyable entertainment.

Numbered reviews:1. With at least three-too-many endings, paper-thin supporting characters, and predictable twists, The Lincoln Lawyer doesn't deliver as a thriller even if its title character is one of the most interesting of the year to date.
2. After getting through its three different climaxes, each one more ridiculous than the last, the film supposedly settles into its moral statement about a man who learned his lesson and is now ready to do pro bono work for drug farmers.
3. Works a bit of humor into a crime story.
4. ...the film is mildly diverting, even if it's a "Jagged Edge" (1985) wannabe and wears its manifold cliches on its sleeve.
5. The next step in Matthew McConaughey's inevitable march to network television is The Lincoln Lawyer, a pilot disguised as a feature-length movie, with an entire season's arc crammed into two hours.
6. A slice of sub-Grisham silliness that offers nothing that even the most casual consumers of legal thrillers haven't seen a dozen times before
7. A solid, adult thriller. McConaughey's best role since A TIME TO KILL.
8. This is rock-solid entertainment. McConaughey, a cunning mesmerizer in the courtroom, steers this Lincoln into what could be a hell-raising franchise.
9. Matthew McConaughey, freed at last from several awful movies, seizes his chance impressively.
10. A classy cast juice up this workmanlike but compelling courtroom saga, with Matthew McConaughey - so long starved of a decent lead - on fire.


Critic consensus:While there are some built-in scares, the movie is muddled and unsatisfying.

Numbered reviews:
1. [An] atmospheric but deeply stupid thriller...
2. So much for 'rest in peace.'
3. As a whole, the film doesn't fit together. It's actually three different types of movies ground together into hamburger and splattered on the screen.
4. For [Keaton], a forgettable flick like this one is like a rehab stint in A ball for a big league pitcher
5. I didn't hate this, but... if I wanted to watch white fuzzy pictures on a TV screen, I could stay home to do that.
6. As inherently unthrilling, incoherent, and unsatisfying as scrambled porn.
7. This so-called thriller modulates the eerie static buzz of an empty frequency into the cinematic equivalent of sleep apnea.
8. all the chills of a refrigerator's hum
9. White Noise might have been a whole lot more fun for the sound effects crew than the actors
10. Director Geoffrey Sax bravely avoids treating White Noise as another grab bag of scare tactics.