Review of The Ladykillers (2004) by John Powers for L.A. Weekly — 29 Jul 2011
It's the disease of Hollywood remakes that they nearly always lose sight of what made the original good in the first place. Where Alexander Mackendrick's film offered a delicately diabolical blend of the ordinary and the brutal -- the new Ladykillers bludgeons you with cartoonish gags about stupid football players, irritable-bowel syndrome and somebody accidentally shooting himself in the head.
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This review of The Ladykillers (2004) was written by John Powers and published by L.A. Weekly on 29 Jul 2011.
The Ladykillers has generally received mixed reviews.
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