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Title: Woody Allen's second-worst
Review: The first 30 minutes or so are fun. After that, "Small Time Crooks" becomes a terrible embarrassment. It does not mark a return to his early comedies; it marks the loss of all the humor and wit that has characterized his writing and filmmaking since the beginning. I am a big Woody Allen fan. I've seen every film he's directed (except "September," "Another Woman," and "Shadows and Fog") and I've enjoyed all of them but "What's Up, Tiger Lily?" (which Woody himself tried to disown almost as soon as he was done with it). "Small Time Crooks" is his worst film ever, hands down. Rather, it WAS his worst film ever, until the painful "Curse of the Jade Scorpion" came along.
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