Nueve Reinas (Fabián Bielinsky, 2000)

A vivacious and well-assembled Argentinian crime caper from a director who died too soon, Nine Queens presents two petty con artists who stumble on the promise of the big spondulicks through fobbing a big crook about to be forced to flee the country off with dodgy rare stamps, the Nine Queens of the title. The succession of sleight-of-hand scams and confidence tricks they carry out along the way may be nothing new as a theme, but it's executed with some panache and wit, and is above all great fun.

7/10