From acting to directing and costumes to sets, American Hustle offers the total package as far as filmmaking goes.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 29, 2024

“American Hustle” is more of a showcase of great actors than it is great storytelling, but it still keeps you glued to the screen as you watch them do their work.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 19, 2022

Russell manages to make these characters at once despicable and loveable, complicated and weighty, none of them irredeemable, each of them incurably watchable.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 19, 2022

It's unconventional in its uneasy structure, but the rewards for sticking with it are plentiful.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 11, 2022

All of that is well and good, but the movie goes almost nowhere in trying to be either a comedy or a crime saga.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 26, 2022

Depending on who you speak to, this film is either ruthlessly entertaining, or heinously stupid, and given David O'Russell's reputation, I'm personally inclined to say the latter.

Full Review | Oct 1, 2021

An embarrassment of riches.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Sep 17, 2021

It's just kind of incoherent, sloppy - skittish and kind of lacking the propulsive spirit the zooming camera's begging for. Scorsese wrung out, hung to dry.

Full Review | Jul 2, 2021

A dazzling, ensemble piece boasting nuanced performances from Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence and Jeremey Renner...

Full Review | Mar 30, 2021

An entertainingly audacious movie that will doubtless be compared to The Wolf of Wall Street because of the similarity in tone and themes, but this time around David O. Russell has almost out-Scorsese'd Scorsese.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 1, 2021

American Hustle is a film made from the same cloth as great movies of the past.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 31, 2021

The running time is overbearing, with circuitous plotting that can't help but borrow its convoluted intricacies, mismatched joviality, and big reveal from other films.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 3, 2020

Amy Adams seems to revel in the opportunity to play something other than a true girl next door.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 2, 2020

In general, unfortunately, Russell's films at this point do not go beyond wishing people-and American society-well...

Full Review | Aug 13, 2020

I'd be just as entertained watching these people move along their normal daily lives - whatever scheme they're a part of is really just icing on the cake.

Full Review | Original Score: A | Jul 28, 2020

American Hustle was more style over actual substance.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 16, 2020

American Hustle isn't necessarily about a con game so much as it's about the morality behind the game. Who's right and who's wrong in a situation like this?

Full Review | Jun 29, 2020

With 'American Hustle', O. Russell proves once again that he is one of the best American directors of recent times. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 25, 2020

AMERICAN HUSTLE is light, but succeeds in entertaining with its plotting back-and-forths and slightly ridiculous characters.

Full Review | Feb 13, 2020

The story stumbles ever so slight but it is ultimately fun, brilliantly acted and incredibly stylish.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 26, 2019