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Ladykillers, The (2004) scores a combined 2.40 out of 4 stars for Cinenganos (Alex Ramirez)Cinenganos (Alex Ramirez)
Si buscan cine de culto esta definitivamente no es la opción, pero no por ello deja de ser divertida en momentos. ...read the complete Ladykillers movie review at Cinenganos (Alex Ramirez)
Ladykillers, The (2004) scores a combined 2.40 out of 4 stars for Empire (Ian Nathan)Empire (Ian Nathan)
It’s but a shadow of the original and a lesser entry in their (Coens) collection, but you are still blessed by flashes of black heart. ...read the complete Ladykillers movie review at Empire (Ian Nathan)
Ladykillers, The (2004) scores a combined 2.40 out of 4 stars for CinemaBlend.com (Joshua Tyler)CinemaBlend.com (Joshua Tyler)
I’ve been waiting a long time for Tom Hanks to return to comedy. It looks like I’m going to keep on waiting. ...read the complete Ladykillers movie review at CinemaBlend.com (Joshua Tyler)
Ladykillers, The (2004) scores a combined 2.40 out of 4 stars for New York Times (A.O. Scott)New York Times (A.O. Scott)
Tom Hanks seizes the chance to play a comic villain with almost indecent vaudevillian glee in this uneven, prankish caper comedy by Joel and Ethan Coen. ...read the complete Ladykillers movie review at New York Times (A.O. Scott)
Ladykillers, The (2004) scores a combined 2.40 out of 4 stars for Movie Gurus (Joseph Kastner)Movie Gurus (Joseph Kastner)
The Ladykillers is one of the most predictable and bland comedies this year and quite a disappointment coming from the Cohen Brothers. ...read the complete Ladykillers movie review at Movie Gurus (Joseph Kastner)
Ladykillers, The (2004) scores a combined 2.40 out of 4 stars for Orlando Weekly (Steve Schneider)Orlando Weekly (Steve Schneider)
While the portrayal is an unabashed caricature, Hanks has paradoxically never seemed so at ease in a role ruled by dialect. It's a performance to savor. ...read the complete Ladykillers movie review at Orlando Weekly (Steve Schneider)
Ladykillers, The (2004) scores a combined 2.40 out of 4 stars for The Hollywood Reporter (Kirk Honeycutt)The Hollywood Reporter (Kirk Honeycutt)
Where the best Coen brothers comedy is a matter of finely tuned tone, diction, attitude and visual rhythms, everything in The Ladykillers feels out of kilter. With Tom Hanks delivering -- arguably -- one of the most perplexing performances of his career. ...read the complete Ladykillers movie review at The Hollywood Reporter (Kirk Honeycutt)
Ladykillers, The (2004) scores a combined 2.40 out of 4 stars for Supercala.com (John Venable)Supercala.com (John Venable)
Ladykillers, The (2004) scores a combined 2.40 out of 4 stars for Arizona Republic (Bill Muller)Arizona Republic (Bill Muller)
Instead of feeling cleverly obtuse, the movie ... seems desperately wacky. ...read the complete Ladykillers movie review at Arizona Republic (Bill Muller)
Ladykillers, The (2004) scores a combined 2.40 out of 4 stars for MovieContests.com (Mark McLeod)MovieContests.com (Mark McLeod)
Joel and Ethan Coen's reimagining of the 1955 Alec Guisness movie not as funny as it should be. ...read the complete Ladykillers movie review at MovieContests.com (Mark McLeod)
Ladykillers, The (2004) scores a combined 2.40 out of 4 stars for The University Daily (Texas Tech University) (James Eppler)The University Daily (Texas Tech University) (James Eppler)
Ladykillers, The (2004) scores a combined 2.40 out of 4 stars for Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) (Lance Goldenberg)Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) (Lance Goldenberg)
...nowhere near the Coens' funniest or most distinctive or even most endearing work. ...read the complete Ladykillers movie review at Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) (Lance Goldenberg)
Ladykillers, The (2004) scores a combined 2.40 out of 4 stars for The New York Times (A.O. Scott)The New York Times (A.O. Scott)
Unquestionably minor, perhaps deliberately so, but it is nonetheless intermittently delightful. ...read the complete Ladykillers movie review at The New York Times (A.O. Scott)
Ladykillers, The (2004) scores a combined 2.40 out of 4 stars for Cinema Signals (Jules Brenner)Cinema Signals (Jules Brenner)
A reach for artistic merit gets lost on the way to strained exaggeration. ...read the complete Ladykillers movie review at Cinema Signals (Jules Brenner)
Ladykillers, The (2004) scores a combined 2.25 out of 4 stars for Plugged InPlugged In
The Hays Code also barred the use of scores of profane and crude words. It's in this realm that the new incarnation of The Ladykillers goes out of control. Had it been released a half-century ago, throngs of outraged moviegoers would have literally ...read the complete Ladykillers movie review at Plugged In
Ladykillers, The (2004) scores a combined 2.25 out of 4 stars for MovieFreak.com (Chris T. Bryan)MovieFreak.com (Chris T. Bryan)
With The Ladykillers, the Coen brothers have taken their love of making movies with eccentric and odd characters a step too far by throwing stock characters together for no apparent reason other than the sheer brashness of it. ...read the complete Ladykillers movie review at MovieFreak.com (Chris T. Bryan)
Ladykillers, The (2004) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for rec.arts.movies.reviews (Mark R. Leeper)rec.arts.movies.reviews (Mark R. Leeper)
The Coen Brothers try their hand at remaking one of the best of the 1950s Alec Guinness comedies. A version that has little to offer anyone who has seen the original. ...read the complete Ladykillers movie review at rec.arts.movies.reviews (Mark R. Leeper)
Ladykillers, The (2004) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for New York Daily News (Jack Mathews)New York Daily News (Jack Mathews)
[The Coen brothers have] made a broad comedy out of a black comedy and completely lost its charm in the process. ...read the complete Ladykillers movie review at New York Daily News (Jack Mathews)
Ladykillers, The (2004) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Detroit Free Press (Terry Lawson)Detroit Free Press (Terry Lawson)
When the Coens are at their most creative ... their movies skip nonchalantly over genre lines and become uniquely their own. The Ladykillers is not one of those. ...read the complete Ladykillers movie review at Detroit Free Press (Terry Lawson)
Ladykillers, The (2004) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for New York Daily News (Jack Mathews)New York Daily News (Jack Mathews)
You have to look at the earlier film to understand where the Coen brothers went wrong - terribly, noisily, annoyingly wrong. They've made a broad comedy out of a black comedy and completely lost its charm in the process. ...read the complete Ladykillers movie review at New York Daily News (Jack Mathews)
Ladykillers, The (2004) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Chicago Reader (Jonathan Rosenbaum)Chicago Reader (Jonathan Rosenbaum)
The remake -- which could have been shot anywhere and probably was filmed on a studio back lot -- has almost nothing coherent to say about Mississippi, though it does recycle a few cliches. ...read the complete Ladykillers movie review at Chicago Reader (Jonathan Rosenbaum)
Ladykillers, The (2004) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Aisle Seat (Mike McGranaghan)Aisle Seat (Mike McGranaghan)
When the Coen brothers are capable of making brilliant stuff like Fargo , should they really be spending their time making pictures like The Ladykillers ? ...read the complete Ladykillers movie review at Aisle Seat (Mike McGranaghan)
Ladykillers, The (2004) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Kalamazoo Gazette (James Sanford)Kalamazoo Gazette (James Sanford)
a miscalculation from start to finish... it just lays there on the screen, flailing sadly and futilely, like a fly trapped in a pool of molasses. ...read the complete Ladykillers movie review at Kalamazoo Gazette (James Sanford)
Ladykillers, The (2004) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
You'll have to watch the original film to see it done right. ...read the complete Ladykillers movie review at Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
Ladykillers, The (2004) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Miami Herald (Rene Rodriguez)Miami Herald (Rene Rodriguez)
Irritating when it should be amusing, dumb when it should be zany, flat when it should be snappy. ...read the complete Ladykillers movie review at Miami Herald (Rene Rodriguez)
Ladykillers, The (2004) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for San Jose Mercury News (Bruce Newman)San Jose Mercury News (Bruce Newman)
The Coen brothers seem to have relocated to a ZIP code where blander movies are made. ...read the complete Ladykillers movie review at San Jose Mercury News (Bruce Newman)
Ladykillers, The (2004) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Lawrence.com (Eric Melin)Lawrence.com (Eric Melin)
The story, adapted by the Coens themselves, is reduced to a series of hoops the characters must jump through to prove just how strange they are. ...read the complete Ladykillers movie review at Lawrence.com (Eric Melin)
Ladykillers, The (2004) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Salt Lake Tribune (Sean Means)Salt Lake Tribune (Sean Means)
Such a slight effort compared to the original Ladykillers and past Coen works. ...read the complete Ladykillers movie review at Salt Lake Tribune (Sean Means)
Ladykillers, The (2004) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Movie Habit (Marty Mapes)Movie Habit (Marty Mapes)
The fun outweighs the leaden cartoonishness, but not by a lot ...read the complete Ladykillers movie review at Movie Habit (Marty Mapes)
Ladykillers, The (2004) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Globe and Mail (Rick Groen)Globe and Mail (Rick Groen)
Buy the soundtrack now, rent the movie later -- this is minor Coen in a major key. ...read the complete Ladykillers movie review at Globe and Mail (Rick Groen)
Ladykillers, The (2004) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Eleanor Ringel Gillespie)Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Eleanor Ringel Gillespie)
Ladykillers, The (2004) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Variety (Todd McCarthy)Variety (Todd McCarthy)
The souffle falls a little flat in The Ladykillers, a Coen brothers black comedy in which the humor seems arch and narrative momentum doesn't kick in until the final third. ...read the complete Ladykillers movie review at Variety (Todd McCarthy)
Ladykillers, The (2004) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Washington Post (Mark Jenkins)Washington Post (Mark Jenkins)
Will appeal most strongly to viewers who think Tom Hanks, who plays a thief and a potential murderer, can do no wrong. ...read the complete Ladykillers movie review at Washington Post (Mark Jenkins)
Ladykillers, The (2004) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Jonathan MoyaJonathan Moya
minutes. Rated R (for language and sexual references).The Ladykillers, the Coen brothers latest, is really more sequel thanremake. It is Intolerable Cruelty 2 twice as painful and awful as theGeorge Clooney and Catherine Zeta Jones disaster that was the ...read the complete Ladykillers movie review at Jonathan Moya
Ladykillers, The (2004) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Christian Science Monitor (David Sterritt)Christian Science Monitor (David Sterritt)
It's insulting when such savvy filmmakers expect us to laugh automatically at four-letter words, bathroom humor, and caricatures as crude as they are unoriginal. At its best, The Ladykillers soars above its own worst instincts, especially when Hanks and ...read the complete Ladykillers movie review at Christian Science Monitor (David Sterritt)
Ladykillers, The (2004) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (Ed Blank)Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (Ed Blank)
Among all classic British film comedies, none is more delightfully dotty and charming than "The Ladykillers" (1955). Sporting terrible teeth and a bizarre speech pattern, heist architect Alec Guinness rents a room from sweet, petite and altogether ...read the complete Ladykillers movie review at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (Ed Blank)
Ladykillers, The (2004) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Boston GlobeBoston Globe
Once upon a time there was a classic British heist comedy called "The Ladykillers," starring Alec Guinness and a very young Peter Sellers, and it was good. Then there came upon the land the brothers Coen, Joel and Ethan, and they said, yea, ...read the complete Ladykillers movie review at Boston Globe
Ladykillers, The (2004) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
Tom Hanks has a ball playing bogus professor Goldthwait Higginson Dorr, Ph.D., a silver-tongued, snaggle-toothed Southern gentleman with the soul of a poet and the heart of a thief. This is as far from Gump, the holy fool, as an actor can get. And Hanks ...read the complete Ladykillers movie review at Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
Ladykillers, The (2004) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
It's as if the brothers admired the Swiss-watch precision of the original and wanted to take it apart to see how the pieces would work in a new setting. As an experiment, it's fascinating. But damn if the fiddling doesn't suck the life out of the laughs. ...read the complete Ladykillers movie review at Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
Ladykillers, The (2004) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Miami Herald (Rene Rodriguez)Miami Herald (Rene Rodriguez)
Irritating when it should be amusing, dumb when it should be zany, flat when it should be snappy. ...read the complete Ladykillers movie review at Miami Herald (Rene Rodriguez)
Ladykillers, The (2004) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Salon (Charles Taylor)Salon (Charles Taylor)
Sructured like a Mad magazine parody where there's a promised joke in each frame. It doesn't add up to a movie. ...read the complete Ladykillers movie review at Salon (Charles Taylor)
Ladykillers, The (2004) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Christian Science Monitor (David Sterritt)Christian Science Monitor (David Sterritt)
If the title "The Ladykillers" sounds familiar, you've probably seen the 1955 original, a classic English comedy about thieves contending with an aged landlady who may spoil their criminal scheme. The new version raises the question all remakes provoke: ...read the complete Ladykillers movie review at Christian Science Monitor (David Sterritt)
Ladykillers, The (2004) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Hollywood Report Card (Ross Anthony)Hollywood Report Card (Ross Anthony)
Imperfections aside, "Ladykillers" is still a great deal of fun: excellent costuming, sweet cinematography, strong direction, and wonderfully crisp quirky dialogue. ...read the complete Ladykillers movie review at Hollywood Report Card (Ross Anthony)
Ladykillers, The (2004) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (John Beifuss)Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (John Beifuss)
Those carpetbagger auteurs, the Coen Brothers, have descended again on Dixie and brought back a heapin' helpin' of Southern caricature and racial condescension... ...read the complete Ladykillers movie review at Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (John Beifuss)
Ladykillers, The (2004) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Boston Globe (Ty Burr)Boston Globe (Ty Burr)
The loosest, silliest, broadest thing the Coens have yet committed to celluloid, and that includes "Raising Arizona," one of this critic's favorites. ...read the complete Ladykillers movie review at Boston Globe (Ty Burr)
Ladykillers, The (2004) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for San Francisco Chronicle (Mick LaSalle)San Francisco Chronicle (Mick LaSalle)
The film never settles into an assured rhythm, and instead the actors always seem to be pushing, putting the hard sell on an audience that, however distracted by the strenuousness of the sales pitch, still isn't buying. ...read the complete Ladykillers movie review at San Francisco Chronicle (Mick LaSalle)
Ladykillers, The (2004) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Chicago Reader (Jonathan Rosenbaum)Chicago Reader (Jonathan Rosenbaum)
The Coens' lack of interest in Mississippi is fortunately joined by a healthy appreciation of gospel music, while their smirking appreciation of stupidity extends to every character in the movie while including no one in the audience. ...read the complete Ladykillers movie review at Chicago Reader (Jonathan Rosenbaum)
Ladykillers, The (2004) scores a combined 1.60 out of 4 stars for Las Vegas Weekly (Josh Bell)Las Vegas Weekly (Josh Bell)
Though there are moments of genuine humor ... they feel hollow without any depth to the characters who populate them. ...read the complete Ladykillers movie review at Las Vegas Weekly (Josh Bell)
Ladykillers, The (2004) scores a combined 1.60 out of 4 stars for Boxoffice Magazine (Jon Alon Walz)Boxoffice Magazine (Jon Alon Walz)
It is certainly curious to contemplate how the combination of the genius, subversive Coen brothers with the talent of the world's biggest movie star could produce a film that feels so thoroughly robbed of its best treasures. ...read the complete Ladykillers movie review at Boxoffice Magazine (Jon Alon Walz)
Ladykillers, The (2004) scores a combined 1.60 out of 4 stars for filmcritic.com (Sean O'Connell)filmcritic.com (Sean O'Connell)
A productive failure that’s silly rather than sophisticated. We’re engaged by its oddities, but never really entertained. ...read the complete Ladykillers movie review at filmcritic.com (Sean O'Connell)
Ladykillers, The (2004) scores a combined 1.60 out of 4 stars for Metro Weekly (Washington, DC) (Randy Shulman)Metro Weekly (Washington, DC) (Randy Shulman)
I can think of no good reason to recommend that you buy a ticket to see the Coen brothers remake of The Ladykillers . Unless, of course, you’re feeling charitable. ...read the complete Ladykillers movie review at Metro Weekly (Washington, DC) (Randy Shulman)
Ladykillers, The (2004) scores a combined 1.52 out of 4 stars for Baltimore Sun (Michael Sragow)Baltimore Sun (Michael Sragow)
Hanks tries his hand at a king-size heartless comic role, and flubs it terribly. He looks slack and pasty and, what's worse, sounds slack and pasty. ...read the complete Ladykillers movie review at Baltimore Sun (Michael Sragow)
Ladykillers, The (2004) scores a combined 1.50 out of 4 stars for d+kaz. Intelligent Movie Reviews (Daniel Kasman)d+kaz. Intelligent Movie Reviews (Daniel Kasman)
The Coen brothers’ remake of the 1955 British film The Ladykillers sadly confirms the suspicions garnered by last year’s Intolerable Cruelty of the writing/directing/producing/editing wonderbrother-auteurs unaccountably moving towards bland ...read the complete Ladykillers movie review at d+kaz. Intelligent Movie Reviews (Daniel Kasman)
Ladykillers, The (2004) scores a combined 1.50 out of 4 stars for CinephilesCinephiles
The adventure begins when Professor Dorr rents a room from Marva, an old widow who enjoys the comfort of her home and the company of her church friends. In reality, Dorr doesn't only need a place to live, but a place from which to dig a tunnel that will ...read the complete Ladykillers movie review at Cinephiles
Ladykillers, The (2004) scores a combined 1.50 out of 4 stars for Steve RhodesSteve Rhodes
The plot has ersatz Professor G.H. Dorr, Ph. D. (Tom Hanks) renting a room in the house of Marva Munson (Irma P. Hall). Nominally there to play church music in her basement, the professor and his fruitcake band of crazy criminals are planning on ...read the complete Ladykillers movie review at Steve Rhodes
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