Small Time Crooks
User Score
6.5 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 22 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 22
  3. Negative: 3 out of 22

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  1. OneWhoKnows
    Dec 8, 2010
    8
    Anyone that knows anything about Woody Allen will realize that SMALL TIME CROOKS is a return to what Woody Allen does best... MAKE PEOPLE LAUGH! All that give this movie a bad review probably like Woody's attempts to find ARTISTIC CINEMA! Well Woody is best served by doing what made him famous, ridiculously funny comedy. By the way if you think PURPLE ROSE is a Woody Allen hit, you have to answer the door (reality is trying to talk to you). Since ANNIE HALL won best picture, it was and is the ONLY COMEDY to do such. Hence, nobody gives comedy its due. By the way it is MUCH harder to make people laugh than it is to make them cry! Keep making me laugh Woody!! Small Time Crooks is a GEM!… Expand
  2. MitchH.
    Sep 5, 2002
    8
    I love this Woody Allen movie. Elaine May was great and Tracy Ullman was so funny. It's getting back to some od Woody's old movies. It's just a fun and enjoyable movie that will have you laughing all the way through.
  3. ThomasS.
    May 24, 2002
    0
    Utterly witless! How could critics rate it so highly. Dumb, dumb, and dumb. I say that even though I love many of Woody Allen's films. My favorite is the Purple Rose. It is art, because of the effortless way it unites comedy and tragedy.
  4. JonH
    Feb 17, 2005
    3
    Bland Uninspired Woody.
  5. Moviereview
    May 21, 2003
    5
    Bad. The first forty-five minutes of the film showed great promise, but then the movie suffers a complete plot twist which succedes in ruining the story. If the whole movie had been about Small Time Crooks (as it began) instead of poor people becomming rich (the plot twist...) it would have been a much better movie.
  6. J-Shap
    Sep 1, 2011
    5
    While it drags in parts and has a slim margin between hits and misses, Small Time Crooks does a number of funny (and unexpected) plot developments, and a nice role reversal for Allen's character.

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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. Mr. Showbiz
    Reviewed by: Kevin Maynard
    54
    Only Elaine May shines, in a weird and wonderful turn. Her loopy character has such a struck-by-lightning demeanor that she's always delightfully off in her own comic orbit even in the tritest of scenes.
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  2. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Rita Kempley
    70
    Diverting and provides a satisfying alternative to teen-oriented summer comedy.
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  3. Film.com
    Reviewed by: Tom Keogh
    90
    This is vintage Allen, his powers intact after a string of increasingly cranky, creaky films in the last few years.
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