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Welcome to Collinwood (2002) Rank 5 Reviews
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filmcritic.com (Norm Schrager)
A zippy, enormously entertaining heist movie that, with a kind heart at its core, encompasses the styles of yesterday, today, and if we're lucky, maybe even tomorrow. ...read the complete Welcome to Collinwood movie review at filmcritic.com (Norm Schrager)
Sun Newspapers of Cleveland (John Urbancich)
While locals will get a kick out of spotting Cleveland sites, the rest of the world will enjoy a fast-paced comedy with quirks that might make the award-winning Coen brothers envious. ...read the complete Welcome to Collinwood movie review at Sun Newspapers of Cleveland (John Urbancich)
Dallas Observer (Gregory Weinkauf)
It's excessively quirky and a little underconfident in its delivery, but otherwise this is the best "old neighborhood" project since Christopher Walken kinda romanced Cyndi Lauper in "The ...read the complete Welcome to Collinwood movie review at Dallas Observer (Gregory Weinkauf)
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Boston Globe (Wesley Morris)
An infectious caper flick. ...read the complete Welcome to Collinwood movie review at Boston Globe (Wesley Morris)
Christian Science Monitor (David Sterritt)
The farce is energetically written, breezily acted, and never quite as dumb as the lunkheads it's about. ...read the complete Welcome to Collinwood movie review at Christian Science Monitor (David Sterritt)
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (Liam Lacey)
Filled with a sweet, loopy sensibility and some fresh comic turns, Welcome to Collinwood is a low-budget American film that falls into the good-but-slight category. ...read the complete Welcome to Collinwood movie review at The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (Liam Lacey)
Globe and Mail (Liam Lacey)
Filled with a sweet, loopy sensibility and some fresh comic turns, Welcome to Collinwood is a low-budget American film that falls into the good-but-slight category. ...read the complete Welcome to Collinwood movie review at Globe and Mail (Liam Lacey)
Sacramento Bee (Joe Baltake)
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Boston Globe (Wesley Morris)
At some point we're flashed a junkyard billboard telling us that Collinwood is the ''Beirut of Cleveland'' - yes, but here, it's by way of Looney Tunes. ...read the complete Welcome to Collinwood movie review at Boston Globe (Wesley Morris)
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Detroit Free Press (Terry Lawson)
As shameless as it is successful in stringing together gag after gag. ...read the complete Welcome to Collinwood movie review at Detroit Free Press (Terry Lawson)
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UK Critic (Ian Waldron-Mantgani)
The film looks and sounds bright and bouncy, and it's full of reliable old comic devices like characters absurdly repeating themselves and asking incredulous questions. ...read the complete Welcome to Collinwood movie review at UK Critic (Ian Waldron-Mantgani)
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The New York Times (A.O. Scott)
What the movie lacks in polish, though, it makes up for in pluck, enthusiasm and slapstick shamelessness. ...read the complete Welcome to Collinwood movie review at The New York Times (A.O. Scott)
The Onion (A.V. Club) (Keith Phipps)
A low-key charmer that balances half a dozen winning performances, Welcome To Collinwood's momentum occasionally stalls, and it doesn't always produce laughs. ...read the complete Welcome to Collinwood movie review at The Onion (A.V. Club) (Keith Phipps)
rec.arts.movies.reviews (Susan Granger)
Droll caper-comedy remake of "Big Deal on Madonna Street" that's a sly, amusing, laugh-filled little gem in which the ultimate "Bellini" begins to look like a "real Kaputschnik." ...read the complete Welcome to Collinwood movie review at rec.arts.movies.reviews (Susan Granger)
TV Guide (Ken Fox)
Populated by a great ensemble cast and oozing a grubby sort of charm. ...read the complete Welcome to Collinwood movie review at TV Guide (Ken Fox)
Los Angeles Times (Manohla Dargis)
There isn't much else to the film beyond slapstick antics and professional gloss, but the results are diverting enough, in great measure because it's essentially a scene-by-scene remake Mario Monicelli's 1958 satire, "Big Deal on Madonna ...read the complete Welcome to Collinwood movie review at Los Angeles Times (Manohla Dargis)
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Chicago Tribune (Mark Caro)
Even at a mere 82 minutes, the movie is guilty of killing time. It's not a complete Kaputschnik, but it's sure no Bellini. ...read the complete Welcome to Collinwood movie review at Chicago Tribune (Mark Caro)
New York Daily News (Jack Mathews)
It takes us about half the film to adjust to its quirkiness, and we leave the theater with both laughter cramps and the feeling that it should have been funnier a lot longer. ...read the complete Welcome to Collinwood movie review at New York Daily News (Jack Mathews)
New York Post (Megan Lehmann)
Doesn't have the polish of "Ocean's Eleven" - but it does have George Clooney. ...read the complete Welcome to Collinwood movie review at New York Post (Megan Lehmann)
Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
A wacky and eccentric heist comedy with many virtues, but it is also a remake of "Big Deal on Madonna Street" (1958), a movie much beloved by me. Some scenes are so close to the original it's kind of uncanny. ...read the complete Welcome to Collinwood movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
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Philadelphia Inquirer (Steven Rea)
Funny and not-funny, slapstick and slapdash, Welcome to Collinwood is a seriously uneven caper comedy in which a bunch of really fine character actors get to act really, really silly. ...read the complete Welcome to Collinwood movie review at Philadelphia Inquirer (Steven Rea)
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I have the impression that there are several particular vibes ‘happening’ in Hollywood nowadays. Aside from the usual blockbuster drone, we see more and more movies coming out with a certain feel to it; this special feel is mainly created by the ...read the complete Welcome to Collinwood movie review at Choking on Popcorn; Sweet & Salty Movie Reviews
Dallas Morning News (Matt Weitz)
It's supposed to be a humorous, all-too-human look at how hope can breed a certain kind of madness -- and strength -- but it never quite adds up. ...read the complete Welcome to Collinwood movie review at Dallas Morning News (Matt Weitz)
Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
I wonder if the real problem is that I've seen the original. "Welcome to Collinwood" is a wacky and eccentric heist comedy with many virtues, but it is also a remake of "Big Deal on Madonna Street" (1958), a movie much beloved by me. Some scenes are so cl ...read the complete Welcome to Collinwood movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
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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)
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)
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)
Screen It! (Jim Judy)
An entertaining diversion. ...read the complete Welcome to Collinwood movie review at Screen It! (Jim Judy)
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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)
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)
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)
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)
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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)
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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)
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)
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)
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)
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))
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
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)
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)
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 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)
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)
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)
Journal News (Westchester, NY) (Marshall Fine)
You can tell almost immediately that Welcome to Collinwood isn't going to jell. ...read the complete Welcome to Collinwood movie review at Journal News (Westchester, NY) (Marshall Fine)
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