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Small Time Crooks

2000

Woody Allen

Woody Allen, Tracey Ullman, Hugh Grant, Michael Rapaport ...

6.9

27,306

Comedy Sick of washing dishes, Ray Winkler unites a gang of robbers for the job of their lives. The front: a cookie store next to the bank in which his wife will be working while they dig an underground tunnel into the strongroom. The heist is a disaster, but the cookie shop is such as success that they all become millionnaires, a status for which none of them are prepared.

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"Dumb as they (allegedly) are, the characters in 'Small Time Crooks' are smarter, edgier and more original than the dreary crowd in so many new comedies (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Philip French The Guardian	"'Small Time Crooks' is as light, sweet, crisp and briefly nourishing as one images Frenchy's cookies to be"	NEU
United States	Stephen Hunter The Washington Post	"A pleasantly surprising little treat (...) Allen shucks off his fabled angst and returns in spirit to those wide-eyed days of yesteryear, before Chekhov, Kafka and Ingmar Bergman invaded his creative imagination"	POS
United States	Edward Guthmann SFGATE	"A delicious comedy that starts out promisingly as a pleasant gag comedy but then turns unexpectedly into a bright social satire."	POS
United States	Mike Clark USA Today	I"t plays more like a second draft than a final product."	NEU
United Kingdom	Angie Errigo Empire	"Unlike so many humorists who repeat themselves, there seems to be no end to Woody Allen’s inspiration for unexpected and laugh-out-loud funniness, both visual and verbal (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"A pretty funny satire of the divide between the cultural poseurs and adamant anti-intellectuals"	POS

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