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Small Time Crooks

Small Time Crooks (2000)

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Average Rating: 6.4/10
Reviews Counted: 99
Fresh: 66 | Rotten: 33

Woody Allen rises from his recent slump with Small Time Crooks. A simple, funny movie, Crooks proves Allen still has the touch that made his name synonymous with off-beat comedy.

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Average Rating: 6.2/10
Critic Reviews: 22
Fresh: 13 | Rotten: 9

Woody Allen rises from his recent slump with Small Time Crooks. A simple, funny movie, Crooks proves Allen still has the touch that made his name synonymous with off-beat comedy.

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Thirty-one years after Take the Money and Run, Woody Allen returns to a life of crime in this broad comedy. Allen plays Ray Winkler, a low-brow con man who is married to Frenchy (Tracy Ullman), a former stripper. Ray and his buddies concoct a scheme to rob a bank by digging a tunnel from a defunct pizza place next door; as a cover, Frenchy opens a cookie shop in the storefront while Ray and company dig in the back. Ray's burglary is a failure, but Frenchy's cookies are a rousing success, and

PG, 1 hr. 34 min.

Drama, Comedy

Woody Allen

Dec 19, 2000

DreamWorks SKG

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Critic Reviews for Small Time Crooks

All Critics (117) | Top Critics (25) | Fresh (66) | Rotten (34) | DVD (15)

Small Time Crooks is appealing.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Salon.com | Comment
Charles Taylor
Salon.com
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Small Time Crooks finds Woody Allen back in a comfortable comic groove.

January 1, 2000 Comment
Jay Carr
Boston Globe
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Allen's performance, like the movie, feels less manic than his standard comic persona.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | Comment
Louis B. Parks
Houston Chronicle
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Alert jokes.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee | Comment
Joe Baltake
Sacramento Bee
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Small Time Crooks, isn't anywhere near as hilarious as I hoped it would be.

January 1, 2000 Comment
Lou Lumenick
New York Post
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Small Time Crooks is a small-change Woody Allen film. It's also the writer-director's funniest in years.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Comment
Steve Murray
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Not much here to interest to children.

December 28, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comments (2)
Nell Minow
Common Sense Media

I'm happy to report that the new film, Small Time Crooks, is a return to good laughs and good fun.

May 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | Comment
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

Tracey Ullman is Allen's best on-screen match since Diane Keaton in Annie Hall; smart, funny, a fully-developed character.

January 15, 2005 Comment
Jeffrey Overstreet
Looking Closer
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Amusing but uneven bank heist caper with Elaine May as its brightest spot

January 9, 2010
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Tony Gandia

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Really good film, an overlooked Woody Allen!

September 24, 2009
SirPant
Anthony Lawrie

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