Rotten
It's too little, too late for Crano's Wes Anderson-inflected innocence-disrupted project...
Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times
A Bag of Hammers
A con is easy. Family is hard.
2011 · 1h 25m · NOT RATED
Comedy, Drama
Directed by
Brian Crano
Overview
Two misfit best friends incapable of growing up, whose direction is tested by an abandoned child, worn beyond his years; together they invent the family they've always needed.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
56%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Brian Crano's very slight debut of a comedy.
Lou Lumenick, New York Post
Rotten
Mr. Canterbury's character is a Hollywood child archetype: wan and withdrawn, all monosyllables and needy stares.
Andy Webster, New York Times
Fresh
Woven amid the glib one-liners and contrived scenarios is an unexpected, and undeniably touching, sense of heart.
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News
Fresh
It's a struggle all the way for A Bag Of Hammers, though its irony-crusted heart is in the right place.
Scott Tobias, AV Club
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