Small Time Crooks Critic Reviews

A delicious comedy that starts out promisingly as a pleasant gag comedy but then turns unexpectedly into a bright social satire.Read the full review

Handsome as all Allen films are, and it proceeds with the brisk, sophisticated air of throwaway confidence and lack of pretense that we expect from the contemporary master of grown-up comedy.Read the full review

The Woodman has recovered his common touch. On him, it looks good.Read the full review

Breezy, enjoyable romp gratifyingly zigzags in directions that aren't apparent at the outset and features some intriguingly personal subtext for longtime Woody watchers.Read the full review

In this sweet, funny wisp of a movie, Mr. 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.Read the full review

It's the kind of movie you can settle into, secure in the expectation that you can steal from it more than a little vintage Allen fun.Read the full review

Though this is a tough movie to dislike, it plays more like a second draft than a final product.Read the full review

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.Read the full review

Diverting and provides a satisfying alternative to teen-oriented summer comedy.Read the full review