In an attempt to steal a casino, a young smart professor, who needs money and composes a team of robbers, but when an old woman reveals their plan, incidents come to challenge them, as they make their mind to kill her, the thing that challenges them.
It's both lowdown and effete, a jamboree of whoopee jokes and sick wit.
Mark Sells
Film Threat
December 06, 2005
Good but not great, The Ladykillers is simple, somewhat funny and 'nothing more.'
Nell Minow
Common Sense Media
December 28, 2010
Some wicked pleasures for mature teens and adults.
Geoff Andrew
Time Out
June 24, 2006
While being far from the Coens' finest hour, it remains more intelligent and ambitious than most of what currently passes for Hollywood mainstream comedy.
Most of this stuff isn't worthy of the Farrelly brothers, let alone the Coen brothers.
Kam Williams
Princeton Town Topics
May 02, 2007
Despite cartoonish characters, over-the-top hijinks, and occasional lapses of bad taste, any movie that leaves you laughing up the aisle, has to remain well-recommended.
