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Masterminds

Masterminds (AKA Loomis Fargo)

2016

Jared Hess

Zach Galifianakis, Owen Wilson, Kristen Wiig, Jason Sudeikis ...

4.6

3,669

Comedy. Action A guard at an armored car company in the Southern U.S. organizes one of the biggest bank heists in American history. Based on the October 1997 Loomis Fargo robbery.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Jordan Hoffman The Guardian	"'Masterminds' (...) is basically a Coen brothers film but put through a mechanism that removes all the wit, visual style or excitement (...) Rating: ★ (out of five)"	NEG
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"Zach Galifianakis succeeds in making an already ridiculous crime even funnier (...) As in 'Napoleon Dynamite,' Hess and his team waste no opportunity to potentially earn a laugh"	POS
United States	Tirdad Derakhshani Philadelphia Inquirer	"'Masterminds' is filled with the sort of idiotic bathroom humor that has become standard in big-screen comedies, but it is enlivened by the surreal slapstick touches that made Napoleon Dynamite so good (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Mick LaSalle SFGATE	"An average movie with exceptional comic acting (...) You might forget 'Masterminds' five minutes after you see it, but you’ll enjoy it in the moment"	NEU
United States	Kate Erbland IndieWire	"Jared Hess' film may be stacked with comedic talent -- from Zach Galifianakis to Kristen Wiig -- but it can't even effectively snatch a solid laugh"	POS
United States	Dave White The Wrap	"Jared Hess turns real-life fumbled felony into sweetly amusing cautionary tale of blind love"	POS
United States	Sheri Linden The Hollywood Reporter	"Less than masterful, but you'll laugh (...) Dumb criminals and their bad ’90s taste are the objects of affectionate ridicule in 'Masterminds'"	POS

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