The movie's refusal to judge is its most interesting attribute, if one many audiences won't be able to get around.
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01/29/09
The Pleasure of Being Robbed (2008)
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Reviews Counted: 9
Fresh: 2
Rotten:7
Average Rating: 4.1/10
Theatrical Release:Oct 3, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: The loopy life of a young kleptomaniac (Eléonore Hendricks), and her adventures in compulsive thievery are the subject for this observant comedy. Lo-fi cinematography and muffled audio add a patina... [More]
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Top CriticA charming indie title, suffused with the spirit of the French New Wave of the early sixties and possessed of a quirky likeability.
10/18/08
Less pleasurable after the first fifteen minutes.
10/18/08
Top CriticFew ticketbuyers will take joy in The Pleasure of Being Robbed, Joshua Safdie's pranksterish New York indie portrait of a deeply unsympathetic young distaff hustler.
10/18/08
Top Critic"Mumblecore" is the trendy term being thrown about to describe this film and its ilk, as if all this slacker randomness is some kind of acceptable cinematic companion to alternative music (which can often suck badly, too). Let's just call it pure, undilut
10/13/08
Evasively banal, the story of a female petty thief in lower Manhattan morphs into a marginally intriguing character sketch at around the 55 (out of 71) minute mark.
10/03/08
Exposes itself as a technically deficient bore with little on its agenda.
10/03/08
Top CriticAffects an air of expressionistic realism but has no interest in actual believability.
10/01/08
The chance to discover a raw talent like this (who’ll convince you that every movie deserves a dream sequence featuring a polar bear) is a pleasure indeed.
10/01/08
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