The Hustle Review: Just Rotten
The quickest way to encapsulate The Hustle is with a quote from 1996’s Multiplicity: “You know how when you make a copy of a copy, it’s not as sharp as… well… the original.”
The quickest way to encapsulate The Hustle is with a quote from 1996’s Multiplicity: “You know how when you make a copy of a copy, it’s not as sharp as… well… the original.”
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Stale, safe and manipulative, ‘The Intern’ is the cinematic equivalent of an exhausted sigh from a collection of filmmakers and actors who just don’t seem to care about what they’re doing. It’s a movi...
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