Here's a movie that I really don't what to make of.  I liked it and I didn't like it and I can't explain that other than to say that's how I felt about it.   Sometimes I find Nicholas Cage irritating and to some degree I think that's my dislike of this movie.  What I liked was the multiple stories in it and with out giving anything away I liked the ending.  We were interrupted during this movie and I had to return it with out watching the end.  Had it not been for a friend who told us that there was a great twist in the end, I doubt I would have rented it again to watch the rest.  But we did and I'm glad.   That should tell you something.   Roger Ebert was a little more enamoured with it.  "The screenplay for "Matchstick Men" is an achievement of Oscar caliber -- so absorbing that whenever it cuts away from "the plot," there is another, better plot to cut to."   I wouldn't call it Oscar caliber, but we can recommend it.

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Storyline From Yahoo:  Phobia-addled con artist Roy (Cage) and his protégé Frank (Rockwell) are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the unexpected arrival of Roy’s teenage daughter Angela (Lohman) disrupts his carefully-ordered life and jeopardizes his high-risk scam. Ratings: Critics B     Users B+