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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 75
    Boston Globe | Wesley Morris

    At some point we're flashed a junkyard billboard telling us that Collinwood is the ''Beirut of Cleveland'' - yes, but here, it's by way of Looney Tunes. Read full review

  • 70
    Los Angeles Times | Manohla Dargis

    There isn't much else to the film beyond slapstick antics and professional gloss, but the results are diverting enough, in great measure because it's essentially a scene-by-scene remake Mario Monicelli's 1958 satire, "Big Deal on Madonna Street." Read full review

  • 70
    The New York Times | Dana Stevens

    What the movie lacks in polish, though, it makes up for in pluck, enthusiasm and slapstick shamelessness. Read full review

  • 63
    New York Daily News | Jack Mathews

    It takes us about half the film to adjust to its quirkiness, and we leave the theater with both laughter cramps and the feeling that it should have been funnier a lot longer. Read full review

  • 63
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    A wacky and eccentric heist comedy with many virtues, but it is also a remake of "Big Deal on Madonna Street" (1958), a movie much beloved by me. Some scenes are so close to the original it's kind of uncanny. Read full review

  • 63
    Philadelphia Inquirer | Steven Rea

    Funny and not-funny, slapstick and slapdash, Welcome to Collinwood is a seriously uneven caper comedy in which a bunch of really fine character actors get to act really, really silly. Read full review

  • 60
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

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

  • 50
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    Excitement trumps incompetence as one colorful loser recruits another. Pretty soon, the screen is filled with hip actors playing clueless lowlifes, pretending they're in a Bizarro World production of ''Ocean's Eleven.'' Read full review

  • 50
    Variety | Todd McCarthy

    Anthony and Joe Russo place too much faith in the ability of their talented thesps to carry the day over precariously thin material. Read full review

  • 40
    Salon.com | Charles Taylor

    A bigger problem is that since the movie is a straight remake that reprises many of the original's scenes, we have those scenes playing in our heads, and the Russos' execution just isn't up to Monicelli's. It's painful to see gags that worked so beautifully fall flat, or wither and die because of indifferent timing. Read full review

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