The Ladykillers
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Mixed or average reviews- based on 61 Ratings
- Starring: Irma P. Hall, Marlon Wayans, Tom Hanks
- Summary: This retelling of the critically acclaimed 1955 comedy stars Hanks as Goldthwait Higginson Dorr III, Ph.D., a charlatan professor who's assembled a gang of "experts" for the heist of the century. (Touchstone Pictures)
- Director: Ethan Coen
- Genre(s): Thriller, Comedy, Crime
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Positive: 18 out of 40
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Mixed: 17 out of 40
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Negative: 5 out of 40
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For a certain brand of film geek, the best news about The Ladykillers is that it isn't a Tom Hanks movie. It's a Coen brothers movie.
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80Already as dark as London soot, the comedy hardly needed work to bring it in line with the Coen brothers' sensibility, but the remake moves to a beat of its own, one unexpectedly in sync with the gospel music dominating its soundtrack.
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60Where the best Coen brothers comedy is a matter of finely tuned tone, diction, attitude and visual rhythms, everything in The Ladykillers feels out of kilter. With Tom Hanks delivering -- arguably -- one of the most perplexing performances of his career.
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38Hanks tries his hand at a king-size heartless comic role, and flubs it terribly. He looks slack and pasty and, what's worse, sounds slack and pasty.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 15 out of 39
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Mixed: 7 out of 39
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Negative: 17 out of 39
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TonyB.5Not one of Tom Hanks' best efforts, it does provide some pleasantries, not the least of which is the wonderful Irma P. Hall.
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