Review 1:
"...Writer David Mamet's first trip behind the camera as director is entertaining good fun, an American film noir with Hitchcockian touches..."
Source: Variety
09/09/1987
Review 2:
"...A real curve ball....Mamet has elevated the dialogue to the foreground....GAMES is smart..."
Source: Film Comment
p.61-4 11/01/1987
Review 3:
"...Coldly absorbing....Mamet gives us the plot in crisp layers....[The] dialogue -- subtly rhythmed, pungent, terrifically well written -- carries the movie..."
Source: Los Angeles Times
p.C1 10/15/1987
Review 4:
"...Mamet's dialogue starts with the plain red bricks of reality, and mortars them into walls that are slightly askew..."
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
p.5 10/31/1999
Review 5:
"...Entertaining, deadpan, seriocomic melodrama....Mamet's screenplay builds much like a whopping good poker game..."
Source: New York Times
p.94 10/11/1987
Review 6:
Included in the New York Times "10 Best Films of 1987"
Source: New York Times
p.II, 23 12/27/1987
Review 7:
"With a parlor-trick plot and neon-lit cinematography right out of Edward Hopper's NIGHTHAWKS, GAMES is a con within a con within a con." -- Grade: A-
Source: Entertainment Weekly
p.54 08/31/2007
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