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Thieves Like Us

1974

Robert Altman

Keith Carradine, Shelley Duvall, Louise Fletcher, Bert Remsen ...

6.0

405

Drama. Romance Two convicts break out of Mississippi State Penitentiary in 1936 to join a third on a long spree of bank robbing, their special talent and claim to fame. The youngest of the three falls in love along the way with a girl met at their hideout, the older man is a happy professional criminal with a romance of his own, the third is a fast lover and hard drinker fond of his work. The young lovers begin to move out of the sphere in which they ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	an engaging, sharply observed account of a long-lost time (...) It is full of things to think about, that hang in the memory"	POS
United States	Pauline Kael The New Yorker	"[It] is the most quietly poetic of [Altman's] films; it’s sensuous right from the first pearly-green long shot, and it seems to achieve beauty without artifice"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"[It] manages a visual strategy so perfectly controlled that we get an uncanny feel for this time and this place (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Jeremiah Kipp Slant	"[It] is beautiful and strange, in all its stunning everydayness (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"It plays to Altman's strengths for upending genre expectations and evoking a specific era so rigorously that it hardly feels staged at all."	POS

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