2000 · comedy · crime · heist
Small Time Crooks
Directed by Woody Allen1h 34m2000
A loser of a crook and his wife strike it rich when a botched bank job's cover business becomes a spectacular success.
Our read: Small Time Crooks (2000) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded comedy · crime · heist entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, gentle comedy / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- funny
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