Play Dirty

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Play Dirty

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2025

2h 5m

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An expert thief rolls out the biggest heist of his life in Play Dirty, an action-packed thriller from director Shane Black. Parker (Mark Wahlberg), along with Grofield (LaKeith Stanfield), Zen (Rosa Salazar) and a skilled crew, stumble onto a score that pits them against the New York mob in this gritty, clever caper.

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Play Dirty marks a welcome return for writer-director Shane Black to the realm of wisecracking crime thriller, but haphazard execution makes this vehicle less of a comeback and more just low-stakes mucking around.

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John Nugent

Empire Magazine

Not quite vintage Black, and Mark Wahlberg is no Robert Downey Jr, but this is fast and funny enough to be worth a couple of your hours. Squint hard enough and it almost feels like you’re back in the ’90s.

Rated: 3/5

Oct 3, 2025

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Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

AV Club

It’s overlong and friction-less, with chase and action scenes that quickly devolve into pile-ups of Rivian product-placements and gummy-looking VFX elements.

Rated: C+

Oct 2, 2025

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Matt Zoller Seitz

RogerEbert.com

Nevertheless, it’s difficult to sit through 'Play Dirty’ without thinking about its failures.

Rated: 1.5/4

Oct 2, 2025

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Austin Burke

Austin Burke/Flick Fan Nation

Beyond a few fun performances, this movie falls flat. The script feels bloated, and Shane Black's touch fails to shine through.

Rated: 5/10

Oct 24, 2025

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John Stark

Mac the Movie Guy

Play Dirty has a messy script that needs to be cleaned up, which is depressing considering it passed by Shane Black who should have known better.

Rated: 30/100

Oct 19, 2025

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Aaron Neuwirth

We Live Entertainment

Wahlberg, who has come a long way only to now repeatedly star in streaming films I don’t care for, plays the worst interpretation of author Richard Stark’s Parker yet in this film.

Rated: 4/10

Oct 16, 2025

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Kyle M

Shane Black’s comeback retains some of the familiar comedic style only to disappointingly blend into the chaotic, formulaic routine with nothing much to offer in terms of signature engagement besides relying on the beneficial cast’s performances. (B-)

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

11/18/25

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Nick R

Terrible. Nothing to like here. Why did anybody bother to make this drivel?

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

11/17/25

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Busisiwe X

When I started watching I had no expectation but it's was so good even the twists some I saw them coming but others where unexpected. This has become one of my favourite heist Movies. I'm going to watch it couple of 100 times maybe.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

11/17/25

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Jada T

JUST WATCH IT!! I never write movie reviews, however, the incredibly harsh critics here have done the general population a great disservice. SO GLAD I WATCHED IT DESPITE THE REVIEWS. This movie has everything you want from a heist movie. It’s action packed, full of dry humor (my favorite), actors played their roles well, a few twists and turns that keep it interesting, but overall it was VERY ENTERTAINING. It may not be an Oscar winning movie with an incredibly intricate plot and extreme realism, but it is one of the more entertaining heist movies I’ve seen. It’s comparable to Oceans 11 in my opinion. Honestly can’t believe the reviews it has gotten this far.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

11/17/25

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Lavish C

Rosa is a powerful actress and a stunning woman, Mark is Mark, the Chai dude is a pleasant face, Shalhoub is a good old school actor, kind of out of place here, tonally wrong, but that's an issue with this whole movie, it's just tonally all over the place. In IMDb someone criticises how here there is lot of nonsense killing. I actually watched it because of that, as I hate politically correct movies, but I realise now that the problem is not the amount of killings, but that something feels just wrong, out of place, incomplete, missing.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

11/16/25

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William R.

Over the top action with some good comedy included.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

11/15/25

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Synopsis

An expert thief rolls out the biggest heist of his life in Play Dirty, an action-packed thriller from director Shane Black. Parker (Mark Wahlberg), along with Grofield (LaKeith Stanfield), Zen (Rosa Salazar) and a skilled crew, stumble onto a score that pits them against the New York mob in this gritty, clever caper.

Director: Shane Black
Producer: Jules Daly, James W. Skotchdopole, Marc Toberoff
Screenwriter: Shane Black, Charles Mondry, Anthony Bagarozzi
Distributor: Prime Video
Production Co: Amazon MGM Studios
Rating: R
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 1, 2025
Runtime: 2h 5m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio: Digital 2.39:1

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