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  • Starring: Damien Richardson, Guy Pearce, Joel Edgerton, Rachel Griffiths
  • Summary: Three prisoners are about to be released on bail -- Dale (Pearce), Mal (Richardson) and Shane (Edgerton). Meet the Twentyman brothers. Hard experience and an unspoken bond of family have made them masters of their craft -- armed robbery. It's a job and they do it because they're good at it. Their only rule is, no one gets hurt. (Lions Gate Films)… Expand

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  1. Positive: 7 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 15 out of 24
  3. Negative: 2 out of 24
  1. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kenneth Turan
    80
    Interests us in ways we don't expect. It has a mordant sense of humor and a gift for character and incident that has attracted two of Australia's best actors -- Guy Pearce and Rachel Griffiths -- as well as an excellent supporting cast.
  2. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Keith Phipps
    60
    Roberts' script and direction show sparks of wit, but the plot comes lifted from countless heist films.
  3. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Desson Thomson
    30
    Aside from the obviously Australian flavor to everything -- which can be entertaining at times -- there's no X factor to justify the whole exercise.

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