The box office heat surrounding STXfilms’ Jennifer Lopez stripper crime pic Hustlers is real, and has been so since it hit tracking on August 22, with projections spotting that this could be …
The high-concept story based on Jessica Pressler’s New York Magazine article “The Hustlers at Scores” about the strippers who turned the tables on their greedy male clients during the millennial recession has ignited women, multi-cultural audiences, and the LBGTQ community since its trailer dropped on July 16. If there was a monkey wrench to be thrown intomomentum, it would have been at TIFF where the Lorene Scafaria-directed film made its world premiere.
However, critics embraced as a tale of female empowerment, a commentary on women in the workplace sending its current Rotten Tomatoes score to 95% off 42 reviews. On top of that, they’re already calling Lopez an Oscar contender, saying thatThe anticipation from B.O. analysts is that goodwill from critics will propelto overindex.
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