Our morbid curiosity for this criminal activity, akin to public gawking at traffic accidents, effectively lures us into complicity with both her and the filmmaker. And despite the moral implications constantly tugging on our collective conscience. Full Review

A charming indie title, suffused with the spirit of the French New Wave of the early sixties and possessed of a quirky likeability. Full Review

Rating: 2/5 -- Exposes itself as a technically deficient bore with little on its agenda. Full Review

Rating: 2/5 -- Evasively banal, the story of a female petty thief in lower Manhattan morphs into a marginally intriguing character sketch at around the 55 (out of 71) minute mark. Full Review

Few ticketbuyers will take joy in The Pleasure of Being Robbed, Joshua Safdie's pranksterish New York indie portrait of a deeply unsympathetic young distaff hustler.

Less pleasurable after the first fifteen minutes.

"The Pleasure of Being Robbed" isn't exactly a criticism of its generational brethren, but it is a fundamental improvement, a small quiet film that sees its small quietness with a sympathetic sadness Full Review