The Score (film)

The Score is a 2001 crime drama. It is notable for its cast, which includes Robert De Niro as Nick Wells, a Canadian professional art thief, who wants out of the criminal life for good because of his age, Edward Norton as Jack Teller, the ambitious new kid who teams up with Wells for this "inside job," and Marlon Brando as Max, Wells' financial partner, who plans the caper and connects Wells with Teller. For Actor's Studio graduates Brando and De Niro, the only two people ever to win an Academy Award for the same starring role, as Don Corleone in The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, respectively, this was the first time they had actually worked together.

Critics

Many critics wrote negative reviews of the film, not because it was bad, but simply because they expected so much more from a film with a core cast boasting four Oscars and twelve nominations between the three of them. Peter Travers, a film critic for Rolling Stone, pointed out that when "two Don Corleones team up," he expected "the kind of movie that makes people say, 'I'd pay to see these guys just read from the phone book. '"http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/review.asp?mid=2042778&afl=imdb Instead, what he had to say about it was: "There's nothing you can't see coming in this flick, including the surprise ending. Quick, somebody get a phone book." However, Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave it three and one half stars out of four, calling it "the best pure heist movie in recent years."http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/ebert_reviews/2001/07/071304.html

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Peter Travers - Rolling Stone - Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times

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