Hustlers review: A lean, fierce take on female empowerment in a corrupted world
The IndependentGet our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. 15 cert, 109 mins “This whole country’s a strip club,” says Jennifer Lopez’s Ramona. Finally, we can turn the tables on every film that’s used women, specifically strippers, as decorative accessories to drape over businessmen as they conduct their illicit backroom meetings. Scafaria knows how to play around with cinematic conventions, having offered a clever twist on the romcom with 2012’s Seeking a Friend for the End of the World. There’s even a fairly conventional structure at play: the narrative is framed around an interview Destiny gives, several years later, to a journalist named Elizabeth – presumably a stand-in for Pressler herself.
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