Small Time Crooks

Small Time Crooks (2000)

  • 67% of critics liked it
    (99 reviews)

  • 54% of users liked it
    (15,183 ratings)

Thirty-one years after Take the Money and Run, Woody Allen returns to a life of crime in this broad comedy. Allen plays Ray Winkler, a low-brow con man who is married to Frenchy (Tracy Ullman), a former stripper. Ray and his buddies concoct a scheme to rob a bank by digging a tunnel from a defunct… More

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PG,
Directed By
Written By
Woody Allen
Genres
Drama, Comedy
In Theaters
May 19, 2000 Wide
DreamWorks SKG

Critic Reviews

  • Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

    The characters in Small Time Crooks are smarter, edgier and more original than the dreary crowd in so many new comedies.

  • J. Hoberman, Village Voice

    Allen's funniest, least sour outing in nearly a decade is a small movie with a tidy payoff.

  • Jay Carr, Boston Globe

    Small Time Crooks finds Woody Allen back in a comfortable comic groove.

  • Joe Baltake, Sacramento Bee

    Alert jokes.

  • Steve Murray, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

    Small Time Crooks is a small-change Woody Allen film. It's also the writer-director's funniest in years.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Dan S


    A decent but forgettable little comedy from Woody Allen concerning a couple of bumbling criminals who strike gold when their small business goes big. Not as funny as it should be given Allen's often ferocious bite, but never boring or not entertaining. Allen and Tracy Ullman make… More

  • Tony G


    Amusing but uneven bank heist caper with Elaine May as its brightest spot

  • Anthony L


    Really good film, an overlooked Woody Allen!

  • Jennifer X


    At the risk of sounding too repetitive (because I mention it in like every Woody review I do), I honestly don't know why people accuse Allen's work of deteriorating over the years. This is just as funny, if not funnier than, his early 70s works. I like it just as much as… More

  • Alice S


    People are dumb.

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