The Washington Post/Style Review of "Fla...
The Washington Post/Style Review of "Flawless"
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'Flawless' Puts A Jewel of a Tale In a Perfect Setting
BY DESSON THOMSON
"Flawless," a period yarn about diamond theft, tight-lipped secrets and moral payback, brings a deeply satisfying catharsis -- the breaking of the old boy network, an entrenched brotherhood created to protect the privileged from the rest of us. And it does so with an entertainingly nostalgic journey to old Britain -- that world we remember from long-ago Alfred Hitchcock and David Lean movies.
Who could be more appropriate to usher us there than Michael Caine, the screen's go-to Londoner who played Alfie in 1966, Alfred the butler in 2005's "Batman Begins" and about 90 fascinating Englishmen in between?
As a mysterious janitor, he's half of an unlikely duo that takes on the London Diamond Corp. in 1960, a monopolistic enterprise of deep vaults, secret memorandums and smoke-filled star chambers. The other half is Laura Quinn (Demi Moore)...
(For full review, please visit www.washingtonpost.com)
BY DESSON THOMSON
"Flawless," a period yarn about diamond theft, tight-lipped secrets and moral payback, brings a deeply satisfying catharsis -- the breaking of the old boy network, an entrenched brotherhood created to protect the privileged from the rest of us. And it does so with an entertainingly nostalgic journey to old Britain -- that world we remember from long-ago Alfred Hitchcock and David Lean movies.
Who could be more appropriate to usher us there than Michael Caine, the screen's go-to Londoner who played Alfie in 1966, Alfred the butler in 2005's "Batman Begins" and about 90 fascinating Englishmen in between?
As a mysterious janitor, he's half of an unlikely duo that takes on the London Diamond Corp. in 1960, a monopolistic enterprise of deep vaults, secret memorandums and smoke-filled star chambers. The other half is Laura Quinn (Demi Moore)...
(For full review, please visit www.washingtonpost.com)
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