Jennifer Lopez Is Utterly Mesmerizing in <em>Hustlers</em>
Lorene Scafaria’s new film is a fabulous showbiz caper stuffed with great performances and elevated by an ingenious script.
“Come on, climb in my fur,” Ramona Vega (played by Jennifer Lopez), the imperious mother bear at a Manhattan strip club, commands her new hire, Destiny (Constance Wu). Ramona is perched on a rooftop, smoking a cigarette and luxuriating in an ostentatious coat. Though she’s surrounded by industrial pipes and vents, she somehow manages to radiate glamour as she wraps her new protégé in her fuzzy pelt. The world around them is grimy, but Ramona is comforting and sensational,, she’s at the center of a scheme that might sound ludicrous if the audience hadn’t seen her looking so resplendent on that roof.
