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The Best Offer
Directed by
Giuseppe Tornatore
R
2013
2h 11m
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7.8
56%
77%
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Virgil Oldman, a wealthy art auctioneer, takes the help of a young artificer, Robert, to understand and woo Claire Ibbetson, a young heiress, who hires him to auction off an antique collection.
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Cast of The Best Offer
Geoffrey Rush
Virgil Oldman
Jim Sturgess
Robert
Sylvia Hoeks
Claire Ibbetson
Donald Sutherland
Billy Whistler
Maximilian Dirr
Virgil's Assistant
Philip Jackson
Fred
Dermot Crowley
Lambert
Liya Kebede
Sarah
Hannah Britland
Terri
Brigitte Christensen
The Sister
Kiruna Stamell
Girl in the Bar
Caterina Capodilista
Young Woman
Gen Seto
Housekeeper
Klaus Tauber
Virgil's Assistant #1
Laurence Belgrave
Virgil's Assistant #3
Sean Buchanan
Virgil's Assistant #4
John Benfield
Barman
Amanda Walker
Owner
Miles Richardson
Steirereck Maitre
Rita Davies
Mrs. Derain
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The Best Offer Ratings & Reviews
Ade
March 23, 2025
Enjoyable and original thriller
Eye for Film
Jennie Kermode
Part of a forger's craft involves not simply duplicating the images but replicating the strokes to be found in the original. Tornatore's film makes deft use of cinematic cliché to lead viewers astray.
Chicago Reader
Ben Sachs
The movie's an eyeful, though, thanks to the intricate production design and many artworks on display; it's also an earful, thanks to Ennio Morricone's fittingly lush score.
Detroit News
Tom Long
"The Best Offer" is at its best when it's decidedly weird.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
An uneven but weirdly mesmerizing drama/thriller, Giuseppe Tornatore's "The Best Offer" offers an acting showcase to Geoffrey Rush.
Chicago Sun-Times
Bill Stamets
Italian writer-director Giuseppe Tornatore... designs beautiful sets around Virgil, who holds the screen in nearly every shot.
Oregonian
Jeff Baker
When all is revealed in "The Best Offer," the appropriate reaction is that of a frustrated auctioneer: "That's it? That's all you've got?"
Los Angeles Times
Gary Goldstein
The film has several smart twists and surprises up its well-tailored sleeve.
AV Club
Mike D'Angelo
If its destination is patently obvious from the outset, the journey does at least offer scattered pleasures.
We Got This Covered
Simon Brookfield
The clues and themes laid out early on in The Best Offer, which evolve into heavy handedness in their own right, also lay unencumbered paths for obvious twists to come in this limp arthouse thriller.
The Dissolve
Andrew Lapin
A sleek art-world caper.
Film Threat
Elias Savada
What a nice way to start 2014, with this intricate, multi-layered tale of mystery, deceit, and delicate anxiety...
RogerEbert.com
Sheila O'Malley
Isn't there a more interesting way to handle an imprisoned princess than this tired cliché?
The Playlist
Jessica Kiang
Strangely old-fashioned in its construction and requiring a Golden Gate-level feat of engineering to achieve the suspension of disbelief necessary to unironically enjoy it, the...excesses of The Best Offer are best approached with severe caution.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
An intriguingly Hitchcockian premise gradually takes on a preposterous air in the art-world noir "The Best Offer."
New York Magazine/Vulture
Bilge Ebiri
Part of the pleasure in watching The Best Offer is the elegant, unassumingly suspenseful way it unfolds.
The Hollywood Reporter
Deborah Young
Geoffrey Rush brings striking depth of character to a classic Old World mystery set against the sophisticated backdrop of Europe's art auctions, with charming input from Jim Sturgess and Donald Sutherland.
Variety
Jay Weissberg
The pic uses the polish of faux-sophistication and the cliched old-man/nubile-woman fantasy to distract viewers from dissecting the plot.
New York Times
Nicolas Rapold
Mr. Rush can't fly far on Mr. Tornatore's dialogue and workmanlike plotting, and Sylvia Hoeks, as Claire, doesn't bring a corresponding energy.
ComingSoon.net
Edward Douglas
A beautiful film marred by a weak script that tries to dive headlong down the Hitchcock rabbit hole without offering any of the tension or suspense that might have made it a worthwhile journey.
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