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Crew, The
Buena Vista Pictures
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for sexual content, violence and language
Starring
Burt Reynolds,
Richard Dreyfuss,
Dan Hedaya,
and
Seymour Cassel
To save their retirement home, four former mobsters plan one last job.
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Barry Fanaro
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Michael Dinner
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: March 13, 2001
Video: March 13, 2001
Theatrical: August 25, 2000
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| RUNNING TIME: |
87 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
75
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
I laughed all the way through it.
67
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
A good-natured movie.
63
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
Sometimes hilarious but mostly sitcom-esque geezer comedy.
63
USA Today
Mike Clark
Often livens up stale material with disarming loopiness and zest.
63
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Chaotic, sometimes funny.
60
Film.com
Gemma Files
No classic, but two hours well-spent nonetheless.
58
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
Drowns in flat, clumsy and obvious direction.
50
Film.com
Robert Horton
A pleasant surprise that The Crew offers up the charms it does.
50
Miami Herald
Howard Cohen
Amiable, sporadically amusing farce.
50
Dallas Observer
Robert Wilonsky
For the large-type crowd, one that prefers to have its "dirty" clean and silly.
50
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
Dogged allegiance to blandness.
50
San Francisco Examiner
Walter Addiego
Tired comedy.
50
TV Guide
Steve Simels
Much better than you'd expect, largely thanks to an extremely game cast.
50
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
It's sunny and cheerful without coming off as too saccharine.
40
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
The acting--especially Dreyfuss's ability to roll with the mood swings--is impressive if not redemptive.
40
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
Some of it is, I'll admit, pretty funny.
40
Variety
Joe Leydon
The sentimentality is gently but firmly restrained in a potentially treacly subplot.
38
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The Crew is all contrivance and we don't believe a minute of it.
38
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
The "Golden Girls" with gats.
36
Mr. Showbiz
Cody Clark
Fuhgeddaboutit.
30
Los Angeles Times
John Anderson
So mild, so benign, its humiliation-to-vindication are so predictable and its old-folks jokes so feeble.
25
San Francisco Chronicle
Bob Graham
Seems it's never going to reach liftoff.
25
Baltimore Sun
Ann Hornaday
Fanaro's script never really hones in on the concept's potential.
25
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Each man's shtick swells into a frenzy of overacting.
20
Austin Chronicle
Russell Smith
Most folks are just plain bored -- and I mean cross-eyed, wall-climbing, deep-down-to-the-molecular-level bored -- with this ubiquitous Endearing Wiseguys school of movie comedy.
20
LA Weekly
Chuck Wilson
There are moments that suggest the comedy that could have been.
20
Village Voice
Nico Baumbach
The humor is even more geriatric than the cast.
20
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
When a burning rat is the funniest thing in your movie, I think you're in big trouble, even in Miami.
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