Flawless

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Magnolia Pictures (100 minutes)
and Michael Radford
Michael Caine , and Demi Moore

Rating: PG-13 for brief strong language

Summary: Flawless is a clever diamond-heist thriller set in swinging 1960s London. Demi Moore plays Laura Quinn, a bright, driven, and beautiful executive at the London Diamond Corporation who finds herself frustrated by a glass ceiling after years of faithful employment, as man after man is promoted ahead of her despite her greater experience. Michael Caine is Hobbs, the nighttime janitor at London Diamond who is virtually invisible to the executives who work there, but over the years has amassed a startling amount of knowledge about how the company runs. Hobbs has his own bone to pick with London Diamond and, observing Laura's frustration, convinces her to help him execute an ingenious plan to steal a hefty sum in diamonds. But unbeknownst to Laura, Hobbs plans go even further than he's let on, and together they set in motion a thrilling heist of dizzying proportions, the likes of which London has never seen. (Magnolia)

Bill White
Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
(75) The pleasure of watching such well-crafted entertainment offsets the small disappointments.

Joe Neumaier
New York Daily News:
(75) In the diamond-heist thriller Flawless, there aren't a lot of diamonds, heists or thrills. But there is a nice sense of style, and appreciation for tense face-to-face confrontations among characters trying to ignore the temptations around them.

Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle:
(75) Flawless is a fictional tale, but something in director Michael Radford's conscientious, methodical presentation gives it the feeling of true history.

Ty Burr
Boston Globe:
(75) It's assured and neatly crafted - the time zips by while you're watching it.

Peter Rainer
Christian Science Monitor:
(75) Caine is reason enough to see any movie. He gives this clever, somewhat lumbering caper movie a deep-seated soul.

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