The Score

...the film is a damn sight better than most of the creatively moribund, brainless blockbusters reeled off over the summer.

Robert De Niro stars as Nick Wells, who runs a jazz club in the old town of Montreal but is not, judging by his French, a native. His other job is as a specialist in break-ins...

A solid genre picture that uses a much-visited story to anchor a film that's centred on performance and characterisation.

The Score is not an actors' movie; it is plot-driven.

With a dream cast, sturdy story and a touch of class, this is the kind of sophisticated heist flick that would just as easily be at home in 1951 as it is in 2001.