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Welcome to Collinwood (2002) Rank 2 Reviews
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TheWorldJournal.com (Frank Ochieng)
Chicago Tribune (Mark Caro)
TV Guide's Movie Guide (Ken Fox)
[A] warm and hugely enjoyable romp. ...read the complete Welcome to Collinwood movie review at TV Guide's Movie Guide (Ken Fox)
Toronto Star (Daphne Gordon)
This first-time feature by writer/director brothers Anthony and Joe Russo, with its light plot, short run time and derivative script, feels like a tentative trial run in film, but the Russos are clearly ones to watch. ...read the complete Welcome to Collinwood movie review at Toronto Star (Daphne Gordon)
Screen It! (Jim Judy)
An entertaining diversion. ...read the complete Welcome to Collinwood movie review at Screen It! (Jim Judy)
LA Weekly (Chuck Wilson)
With a dream cast that also includes Patricia Clarkson and, in a cameo, a tattooed George Clooney, fullness of narrative may not have struck the filmmakers as key, and their film feels slight, as if it were an extended short, albeit one made by the ...read the complete Welcome to Collinwood movie review at LA Weekly (Chuck Wilson)
Chicago Reader (J.R. Jones)
The climactic sight gag is lifted from Monicelli's movie like a diamond from a jeweler's window. ...read the complete Welcome to Collinwood movie review at Chicago Reader (J.R. Jones)
Washington Post (Desson Thomson)
This ensemble comedy has its inventively funny moments. But ultimately, it gets a little too cute for its own good. ...read the complete Welcome to Collinwood movie review at Washington Post (Desson Thomson)
Village Voice (Ed Park)
An anti-"Rififi" in which nearly everybody loses their cool, not after the big score goes down but repeatedly and neurotically throughout. ...read the complete Welcome to Collinwood movie review at Village Voice (Ed Park)
eFilmCritic.com (Oz)
Collinwood is certainly one dimensional, but it's a nice dimension. Pleasant. Smile-inducing. Fun. ...read the complete Welcome to Collinwood movie review at eFilmCritic.com (Oz)
New York Times (A.O. Scott)
An enjoyably half-wit remake of the venerable Italian comedy Big Deal on Madonna Street . ...read the complete Welcome to Collinwood movie review at New York Times (A.O. Scott)
Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies (Nell Minow)
Empire Magazine (--)
CineFile : il Cinema in Rete (Alberto Cassani)
cinEncanto (Pablo del Moral)
Ojectif cinéma (Florence Pommery)
www.filmrecensiepagina.nl (Wilko de Bruin)
Los Angeles Daily News (Bob Strauss)
Criminal conspiracies and true romances move so easily across racial and cultural lines in the film that it makes My Big Fat Greek Wedding look like an apartheid drama. ...read the complete Welcome to Collinwood movie review at Los Angeles Daily News (Bob Strauss)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
A diversion so soggy that even the few combustible comic disasters fail to light a flame under the lukewarm laughs. ...read the complete Welcome to Collinwood movie review at Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Matinee Magazine (Nick Schager)
The kind of film that leaves you scratching your head in amazement over the fact that so many talented people could participate in such an ill-advised and poorly executed idea. ...read the complete Welcome to Collinwood movie review at Matinee Magazine (Nick Schager)
Philadelphia Inquirer (Steven Rea)
Sometimes this modest little number clicks, and sometimes it doesn't. ...read the complete Welcome to Collinwood movie review at Philadelphia Inquirer (Steven Rea)
San Diego Union-Tribune (David Elliott)
This one is a few bits funnier than Malle's dud, if only because the cast is so engagingly messing around like Slob City reductions of Damon Runyon crooks. ...read the complete Welcome to Collinwood movie review at San Diego Union-Tribune (David Elliott)
San Francisco Chronicle (Carla Meyer)
Collinwood seems like a series of sketches, with caricatures instead of characters. ...read the complete Welcome to Collinwood movie review at San Francisco Chronicle (Carla Meyer)
Seattle Times (Moira MacDonald)
It doesn't quite work, but there's enough here to make us look forward to the Russos' next offering. ...read the complete Welcome to Collinwood movie review at Seattle Times (Moira MacDonald)
San Francisco Examiner (Joe Leydon)
You could easily mistake it for a sketchy work-in-progress that was inexplicably rushed to the megaplexes before its time. ...read the complete Welcome to Collinwood movie review at San Francisco Examiner (Joe Leydon)
Entertainment Weekly (Lisa Schwarzbaum)
Excitement trumps incompetence as one colorful loser recruits another. Pretty soon, the screen is filled with hip actors playing clueless lowlifes, pretending they're in a Bizarro World production of ''Ocean's ...read the complete Welcome to Collinwood movie review at Entertainment Weekly (Lisa Schwarzbaum)
St. Paul Pioneer Press (Chris Hewitt (St. Paul))
It's often faintly amusing, but the problems of the characters never become important to us, and the story never takes hold. ...read the complete Welcome to Collinwood movie review at St. Paul Pioneer Press (Chris Hewitt (St. Paul))
Variety (Todd McCarthy)
Anthony and Joe Russo place too much faith in the ability of their talented thesps to carry the day over precariously thin material. ...read the complete Welcome to Collinwood movie review at Variety (Todd McCarthy)
La Presse, Montréal (--)
eye WEEKLY (Kim Linekin)
Just a bunch of good actors flailing around in a caper that's neither original nor terribly funny. ...read the complete Welcome to Collinwood movie review at eye WEEKLY (Kim Linekin)
Salon.com (Charles Taylor)
A bigger problem is that since the movie is a straight remake that reprises many of the original's scenes, we have those scenes playing in our heads, and the Russos' execution just isn't up to Monicelli's. It's painful to see gags that worked so ...read the complete Welcome to Collinwood movie review at Salon.com (Charles Taylor)
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