Amidst trying to bring a newbie into his trade, a con artist got emotionally entangled, but as things gets expensively close the two are torn apart.
4 May 1990, Pensacola, Florida, USA
10 September 1976, France
13 September 1969, USA
8 November 1983, Newark, New Jersey, USA
14 July 1971, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
23 November 1968, Los Angeles, California, USA
19 August 1947, Collins, Mississippi, USA
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
[For Smith,] Focus isn't a full return to brilliance but a welcome stop, hopefully, on the way there.
February 27, 2015
It's a shiny, diverting ride. (And right about now, that's OK.)
December 31, 2015
If it's so easy to guess what women want, why is this movie so utterly devoid of any of it?
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.
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.
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.
March 07, 2017
Focus is a bit too slick, but engaging nonetheless.
March 02, 2015
That sound you hear is the high-fives in the writers' room, and that, unfortunately, is where the filmmakers' focus remains.
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.
