Rob the Mob
Millennium Entertainment | Release Date: March 21, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
63
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 17 Critic Reviews
Positive:
11
Mixed:
6
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
83
The PlaylistNikola GrozdanovicMar 21, 2014
Carefully balancing stereotypes with tasteful comedy, De Felitta has his three leads and a generally refreshing screenplay to thank for making Rob The Mob a joy to watch. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckMar 18, 2014
Featuring generous doses of raucous humor as well as a haunting atmosphere of dread as Tommy and Rosie’s exploits prove increasingly dangerous, Rob the Mob is a true-crime tale that boasts an uncommon emotional resonance. Read full review
75
Miami HeraldRene RodriguezApr 3, 2014
Although the premise sounds gimmicky, Rob the Mob is based on a true, incredible story, and the sense of mortal danger is palpable every time Thomas goes in to score some loot (these men were not to be trifled with). Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleApr 3, 2014
The film is partly a comedy, because no movie with protagonists this stupid could be a straight drama. And yet the film contains a lot of truth about its place and time. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comSheila O'MalleyMar 21, 2014
Breezy, sleazy, and sometimes-intense, Rob the Mob depicts a very specific sliver of time in New York history, a time overrun by crack, graffiti, and omnipresent organized crime. Read full review
75
New York PostLou LumenickMar 20, 2014
Rob the Mob, which is more fun and more tightly constructed than “American Hustle,’’ romanticizes the clueless couple, whom the columnist dubs “Bonnie and Clyde,” and moves their inevitable Christmas Eve date with fate from Ozone Park to a far more attractive location. Read full review
75
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreMar 17, 2014
Pitt and Arianda utterly inhabit these dolts and their delusional dreams. They’re careless and clumsy, never thinking things through, never seriously considering the inevitable consequences of what happens when you poke the bull. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesMartin TsaiMar 27, 2014
Throughout Rob the Mob, De Felitta maintains an unfailingly sympathetic stance toward the lovers and the mafiosi alike, while keeping enough distance from all to disapprove of their dirty deeds and deter any viewer identification with them. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriMar 21, 2014
For all their fuck-ups, we never question why these two characters are still together. In these actors’ hands, ably guided by a director who deserves to be better known, this minor little crime caper becomes a very human romantic drama. Read full review
70
VarietyGuy LodgeMar 17, 2014
Unexpectedly but effectively cast in a role that plays to his sullen strengths, Pitt has a palpable, playful rapport with Arianda, a Tony-winning Broadway ingenue whose warm, expressive features and tinderbox comic timing recalls the young Marisa Tomei. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubBen KenigsbergMar 20, 2014
The scowling Pitt proves no match for the Tony-winning Arianda, whose brassy, thick-accented positivity could probably cut down the gangsters as mercilessly as any gun. While the pair is robbing the mob, she’s stealing the movie. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierMar 20, 2014
The movie winds up being a real standup flick, if you know what I mean. Read full review
60
Time OutAndrew FrisicanoMar 18, 2014
Early on, the film bristles with endorphins and oddness. Read full review
50
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisMar 20, 2014
Vividly painting Queens in the early 1990s as a landscape of crack and graffiti, the filmmakers go on to smother any menace with a swoony-upbeat soundtrack and an “oh, those kooky kids” tone. Read full review
50
The DissolveAdam NaymanMar 19, 2014
While Rob The Mob doesn’t ultimately hold together, it isn’t for a lack of trying by the performers or the filmmakers—like Tommy and Rosie, it’s doing its damnedest. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineChris CabinMar 19, 2014
For the most part, it's a gas, but the light touch Raymond De Felitta gives the material is at once its saving grace and its tremendous limiter. Read full review
40
Village VoiceSam WeisbergMar 18, 2014
The stickups, while plenty funny... lack any sense of dread or danger. And while De Felitta has a knack for slaphappy eroticism — with the feisty Arianda on board, the sex scenes have genuine heat — he also resorts too often to sappy lyricism. Read full review
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