2001 · comedy · crime · survival
Bandits
Directed by Barry Levinson2h 3m2001
After escaping from prison, Joe and Terry go on a crime spree, robbing banks through Oregon and California in order to finance their scheme for a new life south of the border. Unfortunately, things get more complicated when they meet Kate, who runs into them with her car. She joins the bandits on their cross-country spree, and eventually she steals something, too: their hearts.
Our read: Bandits (2001) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · crime · survival entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured comedy / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- funny
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