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THE STING
June 13, 2014  | By David Bianculli

Flix, 8:00 p.m. ET

 

This 1973 caper movie is what I consider a perfect film in its genre: charming, surprising, inventive and stylish. It’s got great heroes (Paul Newman and Robert Redford, after Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid), a magnificent villain (Robert Shaw, before Jaws), and enough con-men card tricks, and other kinds of tricks, to fill an inside straight. If you’ve never seen it, you must. If you have, it’s always worth revisiting. All that, and all those fabulous Scott Joplin rags, too.

 
 
 
 
 
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