Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For a deeply satisfying movie that hinges on a career-defining performance from one of modern cinema’s most fascinating stars, ...

AT THE center of Ridley Scott's enormously entertaining "Matchstick Men" lies what would appear to be a pretty significant logical flaw. It is kind of hard to ignore, despite a bravura performance by ...

MATCHSTICK MEN: Comedy. Starring Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell and Alison Lohman. Directed by Ridley Scott. Written by Nicholas Griffin and Ted Griffin. (Rated PG-13. 120 minutes. At the Metreon, AMC ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Ridley Scott is probably best known as a director who delivers big epic action movies, dipping ...

“Matchstick Men” was an interesting choice for director Ridley Scott, whose film canon is predominantly comprised of high-action blockbusters such as “The Gladiator” and “Black Hawk Down”. But on the ...

It is a truism that if you've seen one con man movie you've seen them all, and "Matchstick Men" probably won't challenge the truth of that truism. Flimflammers, grifters, double-talkers, sting ...

The "caper" genre of film is one of the most successfully formulaic in modern cinema. Typically, these films tell the story of a loveable and charming conman or thief who is seen for his true good, ...

Released 15 years ago this month, "Matchstick Men" remains the best example of Cage's unique performance style. Even now, 15 years to the month since its debut, “Matchstick Men” lurks in the dark ...

A small-scaled change-of-pace for director Ridley Scott after his run of high-profile extravaganzas “Gladiator,” “Hannibal” and “Black Hawk Down,” “Matchstick Men” is a coldly crafty character piece ...

Con movies customarily darken the screen with a shadowy world where things are not as they seem, a world peopled with a bestiary of professional liars and cheats — con artists, flimflam men, grifters.