'Hustlers': Film review TIFF19
wrote, in reaction to the preview: “Every five years or so there is a movie I am driven to actually leave my house to go see no matter what anyone says — this is that movie.”
This is a movie about strippers running a con, yes, but it is also much more than that — an incisive commentary on women in the workplace, including breadwinning mothers, navigating an economy that disadvantages them.
When the 2008 financial crash hits, business at the club Destiny works at nosedives. Led by the enterprising Ramona, Destiny, Mercedes and Annabelle take to upscale bars, where they spike drinks of their wealthy male targets with just enough ketamine and MDMA to make these men hand over their credit cards without totally blacking out. How things unfold from there should not be spoiled for those who want to see the movie without reading the article it's based on.
But not enough can be written about how stunning Lopez is in perhaps her best performance to date. Playing Ramona with understated confidence, the actress creates a tough cookie who keeps things light; she doesn’t question the rules of the game — she has studied them so she can break them properly. Far from an audacious, real housewife type, she represents a group of hardworking single mothers across America quietly struggling to provide for their children.
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