Snatch

Ritchie's second feature is part broad comic farce and part grisly charnel house humor.

"...bride) know for sure. What is certain is that Snatch, Ritchie's follow-up to last year's smash hit Lock, Stock..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

RocknRolla

Director Guy Ritchie once more delivers a kinetic and consequence-free tribute to the criminal lifestyle.

"...London-gangster comedies Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, which might just be a nice way of saying..."

Oct. 31, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Ghostbusters

Controversy aside, this reboot fails to hit the mark

"...picture and callbacks to the original plot. An early snatch of Ray Parker’s iconic Ghostbusters theme song sets the..."

July 15, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Next Day Air

A misdelivered package of concealed cocaine kicks off events in this comic film starring Donald Faison, Mike Epps, and Mos Def.

"...short ends culled from the likes of True Romance, Snatch, and half a dozen other, better cinematic tales of..."

May 15, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Call + Response

Documentary pairs celebrities with musicians to inform viewers about the issues of child slavery and human trafficking in the U.S. and around the world.

"...child solider). It’s a pattern that repeats throughout: a snatch of devastating statistic, a longer slice of performance. It’s..."

Oct. 17, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

The Assassination of Jesse James may be the world’s first epic of misguided hero worship.

"...disintegrating sanity provides Pitt with his juiciest role since Snatch, one he chomps in to with all the relish..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Cellular

Feels like a B-picture, but a smart, finely tuned one that wouldn’t have been out of place in Roger Corman’s mid-Seventies stable.

"...of a kidnapping, locked in a nameless attic by Snatch’s Statham and his dodgy American accent. Initially taking the..."

Sept. 10, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Intermission

Irish ensemble interweaves a dozen characters and their affairs of the heart.

"...Nineties of scrappy, snappy ensemble comedies (The Commitments, Trainspotting, Snatch), and Intermission initially looks to follow in those footsteps..."

April 9, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Apocalypse Now Redux

"...reaction in its first several seconds with just a snatch of foley work. Then come the flames, the Doors,..."

Sept. 14, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Basketball Diaries

"...and his pals are portrayed as full-blown degenerates who snatch purses, assault strangers, and hustle tricks in public men's..."

April 28, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Legend of Fong Sai-Yuk II

"...by the head of the Red Flower Society to snatch a secret document from the governor. When he fails,..."

Feb. 11, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

A commando unit takes on the Nazis in this hyperviolent Guy Ritchie action-comedy

"...gangster classics (Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch), brawling Victorian mystery (Sherlock Holmes), and Disney live-action adaptation..."

April 19, 2024 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Gentlemen

Guy Ritchie insists on ruining our fond memories of Snatch

"...filmmaker Guy Ritchie (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels; Snatch) gangsters up again in this crime comedy where the..."

Jan. 24, 2020 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Comfortably Butt Numb

11 movies, 24 hours, 230 stinky film fans -- a diary from Harry Knowles' second annual Butt-Numb-a-thon

"...the festival hits its ecstatic, adrenaline-pumped high. Harry unveils Snatch, the new caper from Guy Ritchie (of Lock, Stock,..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

"We'll Just Rock for Ourselves: Selections From the Lisa Davis Archives"

The photos capture the kineticism of Austin's lesbian music scene in the Nineties and the magnitude of the photographer's legacy

"..."lezzie rock" groups such as Two Nice Girls, Power Snatch, and Sincola – with their sexually and politically charged..."

July 6, 2018 Arts Review by Beth Sullivan

Short Cuts

Richard Linklater goes to Sundance.

"...Gift and the wildly anticipated Guy Ritchie caper flick Snatch with attending actor Ade swarmed by autograph hounds post-screening...."

Dec. 15, 2000 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

The Black Phone

Ethan Hawke is a villain for the ages in this brilliant horror

"...wander off because some beast with a van would snatch them up, and ... well, you know what. That's..."

June 24, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Firestarter

Annoying adaptation of Stephen King’s novel of pyrokinetic terror

"...dispatching merciless superpowered assassin Rainbird (a near-catatonic Greyeyes) to snatch Charlie, who it turns out is the flame-wielding result..."

May 20, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Legend of La Llorona

The weeping woman has reason to cry in this flat supernatural horror

"...of La Llorona — “The Weeping Woman” — will snatch you up as she roams the water’s edge, futilely..."

Jan. 7, 2022 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Queering the Archive With Kate Messer

"Your own culture is worth a memory."

"...about 70 billion bands – to be in Power Snatch and so that became Power Snatch. Lisa Davis was..."

July 5, 2018 Qmmunity Post by Beth Sullivan

Iris

In one of his final films, doc legend Albert Maysles profiles fashion maven Iris Apfel

"...sticks, and hands tightly clasped, it becomes a poignant snatch of real-time aging: caught by a filmmaker in his..."

May 15, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Cockneys vs. Zombies

This bloody good zom-com stands out from the crowd of zombies recently invading our screens.

"...some stellar Brit-cinema legends, chief among them Alan Ford (Snatch’s Brick Top) as Terry and Andy’s hard-case grandpa Ray,..."

Aug. 2, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Knuckle

Fight Club meets the Hatfields and McCoys in this documentary about the bare-knuckle bruisers of Ireland.

"...Brad Pitt as the marble-mouthed bruiser Mickey O'Neil in Snatch, then you've seen a fairly accurate-yet-fictional Traveller character onscreen...."

Dec. 9, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Jackass 3D

Now with even more stupefying stunts and added dimensions.

"...Try as they might, the Jackass gang can't quite snatch the year's ultimate 3D gross-out from the pricking jaws..."

Oct. 22, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Gay Place

So randomly nostalgic, you may call us the 'Gay Page Two'

"...old Cavity Club, the very place a certain Power Snatch premiered in its pre-Terry & Darcie lineup in 1992 –..."

April 23, 2010 Column by Kate X Messer

A Christmas Tale

Catherine Deneuve stars as the matriarch of this family, whose holiday gathering is like some marvelous do-si-do in which the characters partake in endless swirls of accusations, confessions, and glimpses of grace.

"...about the cadences of family life. It’s but a snatch – which is often all Desplechin has time to..."

Dec. 19, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Max Payne

Film version of the popular video game stars Mark Wahlberg … unfortunately.

"...slo-mo ordnance, particularly when shadowy Valkyries swoop in to snatch up the fallen. Wahlberg seems to have adopted an..."

Oct. 24, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Teeth

Austin-shot horror pic about a girl who discovers that her naughty bits are bitey.

"...however, Lichtenstein opts out of showing Dawn's brave new snatch, although plenty of severed male members litter the screen...."

Jan. 25, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

This Is England

Set in Thatcherite England, this semi-autobiographical story tells of a descent from mischievous schoolboy to junior skinhead.

"...cute can bash immigrant shopkeepers. Graham (sidekick Tommy from Snatch) has a forceful, malignant presence but evinces not only..."

Sept. 7, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Ushpizin

This Israeli comedy is a wholly original movie that's set and filmed entirely within the insular realm of Jerusalem’s ultra-orthodox Hasidim.

"...The Israeli comedy Ushpizin begins something like Guy Ritchie’s Snatch and ends like the Coen brothers’ Raising Arizona –..."

Dec. 23, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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