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The Italian Job

Get in. Get out. Get even.

2003 · 1h 50m · PG-13 Action, Crime
Directed by F. Gary Gray

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Overview

Charlie Croker pulled off the crime of a lifetime. The one thing that he didn't plan on was being double-crossed. Along with a drop-dead gorgeous safecracker, Croker and his team take off to re-steal the loot and end up in a pulse-pounding, pedal-to-the-metal chase that careens up, down, above and below the streets of Los Angeles.

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Top critics, in their words

All reviews
72%
Tomatometer
Fresh

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.

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Rotten

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

Derek Adams, Time Out
Fresh

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.

Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture
Fresh

A strangely satisfying though completely preposterous caper movie.

Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
Rotten

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

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

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