Hustlers
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Bob Fosse and Martin Scorsese
have a lot to answer for. American
filmmakers now seem incapable of
telling a true crime story without
aping the templates established
in Fosse’s Star 80 and Scorse-
se’s Goodfellas. Lorene Scafar-
ia’s Hustlers (let’s take some com-
fort from the resistance to titling
it ‘Hu$tler$’), based on a 2015
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by Eric Hillis
New York magazine article about
sociopathic strippers, ticks all the
boxes you expect it might. Fake
talking head interviews? Check.
Extended tracking shots through
nightclubs? Check. It’s a Wonder-
ful Life style freeze frames? Check.
Voiceover narration delivered over
slo-mo sequences? Check. Top 40
soundtrack? Check.
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