Thieves Like Us

...manages a visual strategy so perfectly controlled that we get an uncanny feel for this time and this place.

Altman understands that what makes Duvall attractive is her otherworldliness, and her dialogue rolls along like she's visiting from another planet, only vaguely curious of the details in our world because she has other things to do.

Unlike BONNIE AND CLYDE, there is a real love story between Carradine and Duvall that comes across.

...plays to Altman's strengths for upending genre expectations and evoking a specific era so rigorously that it hardly feels staged at all

...this tale of bank-robbing Mississippi convicts is a Depression-era crime gem.