Perhaps the best of all the celebrated Ealing Studios comedies.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 16, 2024

This is British comedy at its best, with eccentric characters never for a second seeming out of place in the most everyday locations.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 8, 2024

The twists of fate in the story’s climax are shaped by a marvellous sense of black humour.

| Oct 24, 2022

The distinguished comic talents of director Alexander Mackendrick and writer William Rose have misfired in both the conception and execution of The Ladykillers.

| Mar 28, 2022

A shining light of the "Ealing comedies," this 1955 crime caper remains as entertaining today as it did then.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 20, 2021

Crooked smiles guaranteed.

| Jul 15, 2021

Under Alexander Mackendrick's direction, all of these actors have a chance to shine... It's absolutely so much fun to settle back and watch these actors do what they do best.

| Jul 10, 2021

It takes all these wonderful twists and turns. It's very funny and clever.

| Jul 10, 2021

The script by American William Rose is as close to perfection as a film writer can get.

| Jun 29, 2021

A superbly elegant comedy...

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 23, 2020

This film does a wonderful job of combining dark humor and classic British comedy.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 13, 2020

Alec Guinness is somewhat less believable than usual in this fast and ruthless British crime comedy. But Katie Johnson is nothing short of perfect as a prim old widow whose gentility terrifies the gang.

| Jan 8, 2020

This comedy thriller is the best film to come from Ealing Studios for some time, and the combined talents of William Rose (writer) and Alexander Mackendrick (director) have produced a witty and original diversion.

| Feb 16, 2016

The architecture of the film - and buildings and angles are an integral part of why it works so well - rests upon the twin pillars of Katie Johnson and Alec Guinness.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Nov 2, 2015

One of the great Ealing comedies of the 1950s.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 8, 2015

Delightfully foolish.

| Original Score: A- | Sep 8, 2010

Nothing else like it.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | May 8, 2009

As directed in a kind of damp, gray color palette by Alexander Mackendrick the film is one of the richest and most carefully-paced of the Ealing comedies.

| Jul 1, 2006

Director Alexander Mackendrick ... reached a masterful apex of sorts with this wickedly hilarious movie's precise balance of situational comedy and stark murderous callousness.

| Apr 6, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 23, 2005