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  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 29 m
  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 29 m

Summary In their own words and with unprecedented access, the most successful jewel thieves of all time take you into their world: the post-Milosovic Balkans, the modern diamond trade and a 21st Century crime gang. But as the thieves brazenly commit their crimes across the world - Europe, Asia and UEA - Interpol and global police forces are tigh...

Directed By: Havana Marking

  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 29 m
  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 29 m

Smash & Grab: The Story of the Pink Panthers

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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Summary In their own words and with unprecedented access, the most successful jewel thieves of all time take you into their world: the post-Milosovic Balkans, the modern diamond trade and a 21st Century crime gang. But as the thieves brazenly commit their crimes across the world - Europe, Asia and UEA - Interpol and global police forces are tigh...

Directed By: Havana Marking

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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75% Positive
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25% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
66
75% Positive
9 Reviews
25% Mixed
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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80
Sep 26, 2013
The casefile remains open, but this considered investigation matches the Panthers' bravura with an organisational flair of its own.
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75
Aug 1, 2013
The movie's most exciting when the precision and jaw-dropping nerve of the gang holds center stage.
By Farran Smith Nehme FULL REVIEW
70
Aug 5, 2013
The doc breezily sketches out the process of casing, smashing, grabbing, escaping, and fencing, not in as much detail as David Samuels's stellar New Yorker piece on the Panthers a couple years back, but with some added pathos.
By Alan Scherstuhl FULL REVIEW
70
Jul 31, 2013
You can’t make this stuff up. But Smash and Grab: The Story of the Pink Panthers would be fascinating even if it wasn’t so timely.
By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW
70
Jul 30, 2013
Smash and Grab has a grating, repetitive score and can look a little homely on the big screen. But unlike many true-crime accounts, it cherry-picks its material successfully and preserves the conspiratorial sense that we’re learning the ins and outs of an illicit art.
By Nicolas Rapold FULL REVIEW
60
Jul 30, 2013
Smash & Grab aims to replicate the mesmeric tension of a Michael Mann thriller (the crime-cinema impresario is even explicitly referenced by one of the cops assigned to hunt down the group), though the film is so all over the place stylistically that it often seems like several different movies cut together.
By Keith Uhlich FULL REVIEW
50
Jul 30, 2013
Coupled with a failure to comprehensively detail tactical patterns or the processes of transporting or fencing stolen goods, Smash & Grab’s inability to truly get underneath the surface of its subjects renders it merely a compelling true-life tale in need of better telling.
By Nick Schager FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Roast Beef Productions, Sabotage Films Vienna, Sherbet, Thought Engine Media Group
Release Date Jul 31, 2013
Duration 1 h 29 m
Rating Not Rated
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Tagline The world's most successful jewel thieves in their own words.
Website https://www.facebook.com/smashandgrabthemovie
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Awards

Filmfestival Kitzbuehel
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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