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The Robber Reviews
Something of an endurance test.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 20, 2014
A detached and precise piece of heist filmmaking - more coldness than Heat - but watchable for that.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 16, 2014
Here is a well-made movie with insufficient interest in its hero.
| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 4, 2011
"The Robber" is artfully done but emotionally remote.
| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 10, 2011
The Robber is powerful stuff.
| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 26, 2011
"The Robber" is one of the most abstemious thrillers in recent memory.
| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 20, 2011
Armed with a screenplay adapted from a Martin Prinz novel based on a true story, writer-director Benjamin Heisenberg has crafted something as serious, quietly determined, and surprisingly compelling as his criminal protagonist.
| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 13, 2011
The Robber's race to mediocrity ends with a dying phone call, which among other things is the death of inspiration.
| Original Score: 2/4 | May 9, 2011
This story of real-life Austrian criminal Johann Kastenberger is both tranquil and gripping.
| Original Score: 3/4 | May 5, 2011
A film as lean and taut as its marathon-winning title character.
| Original Score: 4/5 | May 5, 2011
Benjamin Heisenberg's thriller ends with a chase across highways and through woods that will give viewers adrenaline highs of their own.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 29, 2011
The rare mash-up of genre material - in this case kinetic, on-the-run caper - and art-house sensibility that's actually enjoyable, up to a point.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 28, 2011
To make a protagonist this blank engaging, a filmmaker needs the artistry of Jean-Pierre Melville, or the kineticism of William Friedkin. The Robber's writer-director, Benjamin Heisenberg, has neither.
| Original Score: C+ | Apr 28, 2011
Some viewers might give the movie a few extra points for its retro vibe of taciturn badassedness.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 27, 2011
A nimble, dynamic character study of a fiercely guarded loner on the run.
| Apr 26, 2011