It's a story so outlandish that it needs to be served by a combination of drama and comedy, and "Rob the Mob" finds that balance quite well.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 10, 2014

As Tommy and Rosie, Pitt and Arianda are just the right kind of nuts, the right kind of dumb, the right kind of desperate and the right kind of in love to make it all go down like pie.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 3, 2014

De Felitta has a feel for this world and its atmosphere, from the clutter and casual ugliness of the streets, to the insularity of the mentality, to the unexpected sweetness and vulnerability of the people.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 3, 2014

"Rob the Mob" skims over the lifted-from-the-headlines exploits of an outlaw couple and gleans a humanist drama steeped in sentimentality.

| Mar 27, 2014

While Rob The Mob doesn't ultimately hold together, it isn't for a lack of trying by the performers or the filmmakers [...]

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 24, 2014

A romance about two down-and-outers that reveals the workings of a whole citywide ecosystem of crime and punishment.

| Mar 21, 2014

Breezy, sleazy, and sometimes-intense, "Rob the Mob" depicts a very specific sliver of time in New York history, a time overrun by crack, graffiti, and omnipresent organized crime.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 21, 2014

Mr. Pitt is a credible lunkhead, and Ms. Arianda is a delight, dressing Rosie's filthy mouth in the sweetest of smiles. If you were Tommy, you'd want to give her everything, too.

| Mar 20, 2014

The always distinctive Raymond De Felitta ("City Island'') offers a hilarious mob comedy with virtually no violence, though it's based on a tabloid-ready true story that did not end at all happily.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 20, 2014

The movie winds up being a real standup flick, if you know what I mean.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 20, 2014

There's an endearing, handmade quality to Rob The Mob, shot in a warm, nostalgic palette that opens a window on a grittier city of graffiti-strewn subways and petty schemers.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 20, 2014

Raymond De Felitta's terrifically entertaining film benefits from a smart screenplay and superb performances.

| Mar 19, 2014

For the most part, it's a gas, but the light touch Raymond De Felitta gives the material is at once its saving grace and its tremendous limiter.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 19, 2014

The stickups, while plenty funny - an Uzi firing uncontrollably can still be hilarious - lack any sense of dread or danger.

| Mar 18, 2014

What starts as a charming two-hander (with more than a little in common with True Romance) gets lost as the supporting cast multiplies.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 18, 2014

Raymond De Felitta's second collaboration with producer-star Andy Garcia is a lively true-crime tale with a sensational turn from Nina Arianda.

| Mar 16, 2014