Exciting heist film for teens and their families.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 28, 2010

This one offers some agreeably mindless fun in which the villains (including Norton) are truly villainous, the payback is satisfying in a purely infantile way, and the familiarity of everything is oddly comforting.

| May 6, 2008

Itresembles a film made up on the fly. The cast, too, are strictly cut from comic books. Don't expect any unconventional endings either.

| Feb 9, 2006

This unglamorous approach has the odd effect of making them seem more glamorous -- we're free to soak up their star quality because there's no hard sell to fight off.

Full Review | Aug 7, 2004

Memories of the 1960s caper classic are obliterated by this pointless remake, which uncomprehendingly salvages a few elements from the original, while behaving as if no one involved cared or liked it much anyway.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 1, 2003

It is smart, funny, wellplotted and performed and as slick as a Vaselined eel. If you have to remodel a classic for a new age, this is the way to do it.

| Sep 20, 2003

Peter Collinson's The Italian Job (1969) is not a great film -- it's an average film with a great finale. Oh, and another thing: F Gary Gray's remake blows the bloody doors off it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 9, 2003

The caper movie may be tired, as is Hollywood itself - hence its passion for retro. But this one, happily, is not so much remake as refreshment.

| Aug 22, 2003

Unlike the original, this Mini adventure lacks a single defining moment. But, as Michael Caine remakes go, it's way better than Get Carter.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 1, 2003

A strangely satisfying though completely preposterous caper movie.

| Jul 8, 2003

He just doesn't hold your attention, and while he can be downright stunning in supporting roles - just check out Three Kings or Boogies Nights for proof there - he's just not leading man material.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 19, 2003

A tricked-out remake of a heist flick that was already flat and formulaic in 1969.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 5, 2003

Wide-open absurdity would've helped; instead, there's a clotting of musical interludes and a general air of stoic grit.

Full Review | Jun 3, 2003

... a real marvel of filmmaking.

Full Review | Jun 2, 2003

It intends to be a good-looking, high-energy, kinda-quirky thrill ride. It does not aspire to be anything else, and it isn't.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 1, 2003

No one here manages the pure Carnaby Street cool of young Michael Caine ... but Gray and his cast are having such fun that it's hard to fault them for it.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 1, 2003

A pandering, debased, generic little nothing of a movie. And I'm still trying to figure out why I loved it so inordinately.

| May 31, 2003

Take this Job and floor it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 30, 2003

This is Wahlberg's third remake of a '60s film in three years, and it's time he left that poor decade alone.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 30, 2003

This is pure entertainment but smart entertainment, plotted and executed with invention and humor and acted by a winning cast radiating good-movie energy.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 30, 2003