Welcome to Collinwood Critic Reviews

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Boston Globe | Wesley MorrisAdd Critic to Favorites

At some point we're flashed a junkyard billboard telling us that Collinwood is the ''Beirut of Cleveland'' - yes, but here, it's by way of Looney Tunes.Read the full review

The New York Times | Dana StevensAdd Critic to Favorites

What the movie lacks in polish, though, it makes up for in pluck, enthusiasm and slapstick shamelessness.Read the full review

The Onion (A.V. Club) | Keith PhippsAdd Critic to Favorites

A low-key charmer that balances half a dozen winning performances, Welcome To Collinwood's momentum occasionally stalls, and it doesn't always produce laughs.Read the full review

Los Angeles Times | Manohla DargisAdd Critic to Favorites

There isn't much else to the film beyond slapstick antics and professional gloss, but the results are diverting enough, in great measure because it's essentially a scene-by-scene remake Mario Monicelli's 1958 satire, "Big Deal on Madonna Street."Read the full review

Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites

A wacky and eccentric heist comedy with many virtues, but it is also a remake of "Big Deal on Madonna Street" (1958), a movie much beloved by me. Some scenes are so close to the original it's kind of uncanny.Read the full review

Washington Post | Desson ThomsonAdd Critic to Favorites

This ensemble comedy has its inventively funny moments. But ultimately, it gets a little too cute for its own good.Read the full review

Variety | Todd McCarthyAdd Critic to Favorites

Anthony and Joe Russo place too much faith in the ability of their talented thesps to carry the day over precariously thin material.Read the full review

Entertainment Weekly | Lisa SchwarzbaumAdd Critic to Favorites

Excitement trumps incompetence as one colorful loser recruits another. Pretty soon, the screen is filled with hip actors playing clueless lowlifes, pretending they're in a Bizarro World production of ''Ocean's Eleven.''Read the full review

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