Who is Cletis Tout? Critic Reviews

A gem of a romantic crime comedy that turns out to be clever, amusing and unpredictable.Read the full review

A caper film of such postmodernist pretense that it's almost a parody of itself.Read the full review

There was a lot I liked in Cletis Tout, including the performances and the very audacity of details like the magic tricks and the carrier pigeons. But it seemed a shame that the writer and director, Chris Ver Wiel, took a perfectly sound story idea and complicated it into an exercise in style. Less is more.Read the full review

Ladling in so much schmaltz that even his in-house critic says, ''This thing's worse than `Terms of Endearment.'''Read the full review

It's a respectable B- movie -- airy, inconsequential and a little too cute at times, but fairly entertaining all the same.Read the full review

Cletis Tout is both in love with and able to laugh at the conventions it adopts, which is exactly where it goes wrong. It's just a little too self-satisfied.Read the full review

This mistaken-identity picture is so film-culture referential that the final product is a ghost.Read the full review

In the absence of sincerity, Cletis Tout creates a vacuum that flushes out the entire story, leaving nothing but its own hollow cleverness.Read the full review

Allen is no more convincing than the writer-director, Chris Ver Wiel, who strings together faux-QT, faux-Elmore Leonard clichés like so many necklace beads and pretends that's the same thing as making a movie.Read the full review