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32 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90Film.comTom KeoghFilm.comTom KeoghThis is vintage Allen, his powers intact after a string of increasingly cranky, creaky films in the last few years.
- 90Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasLos Angeles TimesKevin ThomasHandsome as all Allen films are, and it proceeds with the brisk, sophisticated air of throwaway confidence and lack of pretense that we expect from the contemporary master of grown-up comedy.
- 88Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittChristian Science MonitorDavid SterrittThe plot is lively and the dialogue packs many good laughs.
- 75Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertDumb as they (allegedly) are, the characters in Small Time Crooks are smarter, edgier and more original than the dreary crowd in so many new comedies.
- 75Boston GlobeJay CarrBoston GlobeJay CarrIt's the kind of movie you can settle into, secure in the expectation that you can steal from it more than a little vintage Allen fun.
- 70Film.comRobert HortonFilm.comRobert HortonFeels like a first draft, in need of toning, pruning, and a little old-fashioned discipline. As an outline, the picture is full of possibilities.
- 67Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumFor all its wispy fun, Small Time Crooks still tilts, with little-guy stubbornness, at windmills in Allen's mind.
- 67Portland OregonianShawn LevyPortland OregonianShawn LevyUllman and May make something intermittently memorable of an otherwise minor film.
- 50SlateDavid EdelsteinSlateDavid EdelsteinSour and mostly feeble, with a depressingly curdled worldview. It bears no resemblance to Allen's surreal, open-ended comedies.
- 50New York Daily NewsJack MathewsNew York Daily NewsJack MathewsAllen was out of his element in creating characters who feel like East Coast cousins of the Clampetts, and his dialogue has never been more banal or forced.