Unless you’re thinking “Hustlers” is going to be one of the best acted, funniest, most heartwarming, compelling and entertaining films of the year so far. And it shockingly and most certainly is just that. So, check those preconceptions about this being just a female “Magic Mike” at the door.

Well… there is an essence of “Magic Mike” in there, but only in the first half hour or so. It’s much more like just a sprinkling of “Magic Mike” meets “The Wolf of Wall Street” (2013), “The Big Short” (2015) and “Molly’s Game” (2017) – the latter three of which were all among the best movies of their respective years.

Written and directed by Lorene Scafaria (who wrote the screenplay to the romantic comedy-drama “Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist”), “Hustlers” is inspired by and based on a true story article in New York Magazine back in December 2015. Entitled “The Hustlers at Scores” – Scores being a “gentlemen’s club” – the piece by Jessica Pressler detailed what it called a “modern Robin Hood story” about what were termed “a few strippers who stole from (mostly) rich, (usually) disgusting, (in their minds) pathetic men and gave to, well, themselves”.

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