'Sharper,' Apple TV+'s Con-Artist Caper, Is a Lot Less Sexy Than It Thinks It Is

REVIEW: Julianne Moore and Sebastian Stan topline a throwback movie about con artists that maybe could have worked when movies were allowed to be titillating.

’s sleek but unsatisfying new thriller, needed to be a little smarter to work. It’s more plain than titillating, more predictable than mysterious. But its opening stretch is pleasurably deceptive. Sandra is a grad student at NYU who walks into a humble indie bookstore on the hunt for a copy of Zora Neale Hurston’s. Tom , who owns the store, is a depressive bookworm who isn’t looking for love only because he seems to have given up on it. They strike up a conversation.

Their story doesn’t end the way it should, with the pair of them skipping off into the sunset clutching prized first editions of their favorite 19th-century novels and living happily ever after as library hermits. One of these people is lying to the other — a “sharper,” per the movie’s title, is a con artist.

We start with the ulterior motives of a romance that was never meant to be and broaden out toward other lies, bigger schemes, paths getting crossed that would never have met if it hadn’t meant a payday for. That’s the beauty of a con in movie form: Everyone is a suspect because everyone has a reason to lie. The actors have fun with it because lying — their profession — is fun.

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