Focus
A con artist decides to employ the services of a lady under his wings and what was supposed to be business, interestingly turns out to be romantic.
17 September 1981, Van Nuys, California, USA
11 May 1984
2 May 1985, Loveland, Colorado, USA
March 15, 1989 in Deerfield, New York, USA
10 September 1976, France
1963, Australia
July 13, 2016
It's one of those movies where everything turns out to be a con so you never have to think about which thing is a con, meaning you can sit back and enjoy an OK-enough comedy about a May-December relationship built on a foundation of gambling and thievery.
June 21, 2016
Smith and Robbie gamely try to get it on, but Jack Foley and Karen Cisco they are not.
March 07, 2017
Focus is a bit too slick, but engaging nonetheless.
February 27, 2015
It's a shiny, diverting ride. (And right about now, that's OK.)
May 11, 2017
In Focus, Will Smith's suave con artist Nicky Spurgeon tells his protégé/part-time lover Jess Barrett (Margot Robbie) his version of the done-to-death cliché: there are two types of people, hammers and nails.
February 27, 2015
Perhaps the film's greatest trick is the one that happens offscreen: Hours after the end credits roll, it will completely disappear from your mind.
March 02, 2015
That sound you hear is the high-fives in the writers' room, and that, unfortunately, is where the filmmakers' focus remains.
July 14, 2016
The best thing about Focus, as with any successful caper flick, is that you are never quite certain when the con is on and when it's off.
February 27, 2015
[For Smith,] Focus isn't a full return to brilliance but a welcome stop, hopefully, on the way there.
February 27, 2015
This is the kind of movie where we're not supposed to know at any time who is playing whom, but since the characterizations are glossy and paper-thin, it's difficult to get worked up about who gets fleeced.
December 31, 2015
If it's so easy to guess what women want, why is this movie so utterly devoid of any of it?
