The New York critics praise the movie “American Hustle”

By: Galatview Staff

Jennifer Lawrence plays the wife of a con artist in David O’ Russell’s “American Hustle.” And this movie was named Best Picture of 2013 by the New York Film Critics Circle gave David O. Russell’s fictionalized Abscam tale an early jolt in Hollywood’s awards season. The film, which doesn’t open in theaters until Dec. 13, is about a collection of FBI agents and con men that brought down high-profile politicians in and around New Jersey in the late 1970s.