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Small Time Crooks
2000
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3.8
If this heist idea had been spun out to feature length, however, it might have grown old and felt like other caper movies.
Rogerebert
3.5
An easy predictable plot with funny, neurotic characters and plenty of hilarious one liners certify this film as one of Woodys most accessible and ent ..
JoBlo
4.0
The talented comedian Tracey Ullman carries this comedy with her elan and spunky contentiousness.
Spirituality And Practice
2.8
This film had the look of something made in a film factory, without an edge to the routine comedy sequences.
Sover
3.5
Sure to be hailed as a return to Allens filmmaking heyday when he made the early, funny ones, as an admirer remarks in STARDUST MEMORIES this thin, cl ..
Tv Guide
3.5
I wish I could explain what secret element it is that makes a GREAT Allen film thats missing here, but I wont let it bother me too much.I had too much ..
Combust Ible Celluloid
4.0
Although the social criticism in this film is cutting at times, overall it is funny and warm hearted.
Lariat
4.2
This is a whimsical, light hearted movie, with almost no point whatsoever.
Eric Ds Nider
4.0
As Ullmans bubble headed cousin, Elaine May steals the film with hilarious, invincible aplomb.
News Review
3.0
To cover for the noise theyll be making in the basement, they decide to have Frenchy sell cookies upstairs as a front.
Screen It
3.0
Woody Allens second film to be released in the UK this year a witty social comedy packed with great one liners.
View London
3.5
What it lacks in weight and depth, it more than compensates for in enjoyment.
Film Journal
3.1
A lot of the beats are a bit too familiar from previous entries in the series, which isnt surprising given that this is the fifth film to play off the ..
Q Network
3.5
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Salon
4.0
As such, it doesnt bother to concern itself with the Zeitgeist; its simply cracking good fun.Delightfully absurd.
Empire
3.0
Woody Allens lightest comedy in years is a slight story of an unsuccessful crook named Ray (Woody Allen), who comes up with a plan for one big heist.
Common Sense Media
3.5
But Mays enlightened dryness rescues the part from being an insulting half wit redux, in spite of the cruelty fueling the comedy behind it.
Sf Gate
5.0
Grant is also very good as a glib fortune hunter, ditto Jon Lovitz and Michael Rapaport as two bit cons and the wonderful, gravel voiced Elaine Stritc ..
Sf Gate
3.1
Bullets Over Broadway this aint though Small Time Crooks should be seen for the great Elaine Mays runaway performance.
Slant Magazine
3.1
Basingers performance is sincere, but its that very quality that gets it swallowed by the films air of self importance and pretension, so the film doe ..
Mr Brown Movies
3.8
The pleasure that comes from watching Small Time Crooks lies prominently in its reliably fresh screenplay.
The Movie Boy
3.1
Unsentimental, non glamorized, and unclouded by the usual overlay of rose colored nostalgia, this is a raw but rewarding motion picture.
ReelViews
3.8
Courtesy Photo SMALL TIME CROOKS 95 minutes | Rated: PG Opened: Friday, May 19, 2000 Written & directed by Woody Allen Starring Woody Allen, Tracy Ull ..
Spliced Wire
3.8
May delivers some of the funniest lines in the movie with a perfect deadpan.
Movie Habit
3.5
And while this lightweight piece may not be quite as good or as memorable as his best films of that period particularly, the hilarious Take the Money ..
Deseret News
3.8
Even a fluffy comedy like Crooks seems rich with the same character and life that has defined so many of Mr. Allens films.
Big Picture Big Sound
3.0
The biggest problem is that its not all that funny.The whole movie, with its rather antiquated notions of the lower classes, feels as if it were inspi ..
News Week
4.0
As usual in Allens films, there is a dynamic in the dialogue that is both real and funny at the same time.
Film Quips Online
4.0
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Rochester Goes Out
2.8
Woody Allen continues his late 90s slump with a movie whose primary virtue is that it recognizes and accepts its own extreme limitations.
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