The Bank Job
User Score
7.6 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 83 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 79 out of 83
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 83
  3. Negative: 3 out of 83

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  1. LeeT.
    Oct 1, 2008
    2
    What has happened to the mind of Stephanie Zacharek? This erstwhile movie reviewer for Salon.com is almost never wrong. But she loved this movie and this movie sucks in so many ways. The problem with "The Bank Job" is that it's simply a hokie movie - hokie directing, hokie acting, and hokie soundtrack. The director is so dump he must have thought that really awful '70s-style direction and soundtrack would somehow invoke the '70s, but all it invokes is what was truly awful about the '70s. And now this movie adds to the list of things about the '70s and make people want to cringe.… Expand

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Metascore
69 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 32 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 25 out of 32
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 32
  3. Negative: 0 out of 32
  1. Variety
    Reviewed by: Leslie Felperin
    60
    An engrossing if underwhelming period thriller.
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  2. Rolling Stone
    Reviewed by: Peter Travers
    75
    Dull title for a juicy, fact-based caper movie that's full of surprises I have no intention of spoiling.
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  3. The New Yorker
    Reviewed by: David Denby
    70
    The actual robbery that the picture is based on is shrouded in mystery, and the screenwriters, Dick Clement and Ian La Fresnais, have engaged in a fair amount of entertaining invention.
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