A successful author of a book about compulsive behaviours, an austere psychiatrist played by Louise Crouse, heads into a gambling house one night to confront the heavies holding a debt over one of her patients, but "nothing is as it seems" in writer-director David Mamet's terrific thriller - well, except that seasoned thriller fans won't be surprised by anything that happens - but the deliberate acting and pace grip as the psychiatrist quickly becomes a keen student in the art of the long con.
★★★★☆
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