New in Theaters: ‘American Hustle’

Christian Bale, Amy Adams, and Bradley Cooper strut in ‘American Hustle’

After last year’s wildly popular but kinda underwhelming mental-illness romantic comedySilver Linings Playbook, David O. Russell changes things up with the sprawling, polyestered, multi-Golden Globe-nominated, 1970s scam flickAmerican Hustle. Not a bad switchup, all things considered

American Hustle opens this weekend in limited release. My review is atFilm Racket:

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