The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: October 16, 2026 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
83
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
1
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
IndieWireBeandrea JulyJan 29, 2026
Ultimately The Only Living Pickpocket in New York shows us that old school and new school aren’t opposites. Like the city’s many seeming contradictions, they are meant to coexist. Read full review
91
The Film StageKent M. WilhelmJan 28, 2026
The Only Living Pickpocket sympathizes with Harry without forgiving him. Read full review
90
VarietyTomris LafflyJan 29, 2026
It’s the kind of unapologetically local love letter to the Big Apple and its less-illustrious denizens that New York deserves. Read full review
90
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyJan 29, 2026
What makes Segan’s movie so intoxicating, however, is not just the depth of its inside-and-out central character study but the granular textures of the world Harry inhabits and the incisively drawn secondary characters played by a deep bench of very fine and impeccably cast actors. Read full review
80
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriFeb 23, 2026
The film Segan has made is very much its own thing. It’s a twilight fable of a city that’s changing, whose spirit remains distinct and grand and full of mystery, much like the remarkable actor at its center. Read full review
80
IGNMatt DonatoFeb 10, 2026
It's a melting pot of experiences from comical to romantic to thrilling to richly ruminative. Everything flows together gracefully in step through a delicate and beautiful dance that speaks to the ever-changing beast that is New York City. Read full review
80
Screen DailyTim GriersonJan 29, 2026
Filmed across the city’s boroughs, the thriller has a wonderful sense of place as this solitary man must rely on his savvy after one of his victims seeks deadly payback. Read full review
80
Next Best PictureCody DericksJan 29, 2026
Led by a terrifically tender performance by John Turturro, it’s a classy, enjoyable, lovely film about a man out of time, coming to terms with the fact that the world he occupies is no longer the world he knows. Read full review
75
The PlaylistMarshall ShafferJan 29, 2026
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York might not be anything revolutionary, but it sure is revelatory. Segan laments a bygone bustling past, speaks to an uncertain present, and points to New York’s eternal beacon of hope to tease the promise of future renewal. Read full review
60
The GuardianBenjamin LeeJan 29, 2026
It’s an earnest tribute to a lot of things – a city, a time, a genre, a mentality, an actor in Turturro – and while we’ve definitely been here before, it’s nice to come back. Read full review
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