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Weirdly brassy dye job aside, Clarke is impressively natural as Alex’s easy smiles and superficial charm give way to flop sweat and nervous tics.
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Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2025
Hard not to notice that your protagonist here is a baccarat player in Macau, but instead of a cool 007 veneer, your protagonist is a con man marinating spectacularly in anxiety, self-basting in flop sweat as his losses mount and his ruse catches up to him.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 21 Aug. 2025
For fans who have gotten used to the actor’s more swaggering portrayals, Roman J. Israel, Esq. represents a bracing change of pace, as Washington shows us the flop sweat and desperation of a righteous man coming to terms with the fact that his years of activism have done little to change the world.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2025
My 30-something’s flop sweat was replaced with a 50-something’s fond feelings.
—Dan Shanoff, New York Times, 22 May 2025
Cannes film festival boss Thierry Frémaux has lifted the curtain on the venerable French festival and its influence, including how the success of ‘Top Gun: Maverick‘ left global star like Tom Cruise in a flop sweat.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2024
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Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2025
Hard not to notice that your protagonist here is a baccarat player in Macau, but instead of a cool 007 veneer, your protagonist is a con man marinating spectacularly in anxiety, self-basting in flop sweat as his losses mount and his ruse catches up to him.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 21 Aug. 2025
For fans who have gotten used to the actor’s more swaggering portrayals, Roman J. Israel, Esq. represents a bracing change of pace, as Washington shows us the flop sweat and desperation of a righteous man coming to terms with the fact that his years of activism have done little to change the world.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2025
My 30-something’s flop sweat was replaced with a 50-something’s fond feelings.
—Dan Shanoff, New York Times, 22 May 2025
Cannes film festival boss Thierry Frémaux has lifted the curtain on the venerable French festival and its influence, including how the success of ‘Top Gun: Maverick‘ left global star like Tom Cruise in a flop sweat.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2024
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“Flop sweat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flop%20sweat. Accessed 18 Dec. 2025.
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