The Robber
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5.7 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 7 Ratings

User score distribution:
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  3. Negative: 1 out of 7

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  1. RobinsNest
    Dec 13, 2011
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Man has been running for 6 years, while in prison for robbery. Gets out, first day commits a robbery. Throughout the film he uses his talents as a long distance runner to keep away from the law. Might be interesting. He hooks up with an old friend? Lover? The daughter of a friend? Who knows; we aren't told. After a few nights she is madly in love with him. He continues to rob and she finds out. Why? He hides the money and his disguise under his bed. Hmmm. Does he really want to be caught? Then he kills his parole officer (after winning a race, with the trophy no less) because the officer tries to help him. (although he never checks in with him, never gets a job, how is he supposed to live)? Oh yeah, at some point in the film the parole officer says he doesn't need money. Why? He takes silly risk after silly risk and for what? Perhaps it's a psychological study of an addiction to the thrill of the chase.
    there is no chemistry, I didn't care about the man, there is no one else in the film to want to care about, or even be interested in. The man hardly speaks, nothing about his background, he is wooden as is the girlfriend. Not even it being based on a true story makes it worthwhile. Maybe it should be on the reality show, Worlds Dumbest Crooks.
    Perhaps I do not understand the subtle nuances of foreign films. the poorer the film the longer the review. I could write forever. But why bother? Skip it please. better yet, watch it and tell m why it's so good? Even why it's even average?
    Attention critics who when they see something that is not the usual fare, it gets raves - the emperor has no clothes!    … Expand

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Metascore
64 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 13 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 13
  3. Negative: 0 out of 13
  1. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Cliff Doerksen
    Aug 4, 2011
    80
    Writer-director Benjamin Heisenberg serves up a lean and solidly satisfying existentialist thriller.
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  2. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    Aug 3, 2011
    63
    The movie therefore offers meager pleasures of character. Where it excels is in staging and cinematography. The running sequences, in races, on city streets and through forests, are very well-handled.
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  3. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Steven Rea
    May 27, 2011
    88
    Exhilarating and, ultimately, filled with a sense of existential dread.
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