Welcome to Collinwood has an eccentric, humorous beat and such beautiful characterisation that, even at a brisk 83 minutes, you end up caring about the characters even as you accept that their every effort is doomed to failure.

| Jan 3, 2018

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006

The mugging is heavy-duty stuff; but its aimless geniality ultimately wins one over.

| May 4, 2003

Enjoyably dumb, sweet, and intermittently hilarious -- if you've a taste for the quirky, steal a glimpse.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 18, 2003

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.

| Original Score: C- | Oct 27, 2002

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 27, 2002

It doesn't quite work, but there's enough here to make us look forward to the Russos' next offering.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 18, 2002

Collinwood seems like a series of sketches, with caricatures instead of characters.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 18, 2002

The picture runs a mere 84 minutes, but it's no glance. It's a head-turner -- thoughtfully written, beautifully read and, finally, deeply humanizing.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 18, 2002

The actual heist is the high point, just as in the Italian film, and so raffish and disorganized was the gang that I can see how someone might enjoy this movie, coming to it for the first time.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 18, 2002

An infectious caper flick.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 18, 2002

Self-consciously quirky and straining for idiosyncrasy, Welcome to Collinwood is a passable ensemble comedy that never hits its stride.

Full Review | Oct 18, 2002

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.

| Original Score: C | Oct 17, 2002

This ensemble comedy has its inventively funny moments. But ultimately, it gets a little too cute for its own good.

Full Review | Oct 17, 2002

As shameless as it is successful in stringing together gag after gag.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 17, 2002

Sometimes this modest little number clicks, and sometimes it doesn't.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 17, 2002

It plays like someone took a chomp out of the third act.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 17, 2002

Yet another self-consciously overwritten story about a rag-tag bunch of would-be characters that team up for a can't-miss heist -- only to have it all go wrong.

Full Review | Oct 7, 2002

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.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 4, 2002

Can't kick about the assembled talent and the Russos show genuine promise as comic filmmakers. Still, this thing feels flimsy and ephemeral.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 4, 2002