Small Time Crooks

Sure to be hailed as a return to Allen's filmmaking heyday — when he made "the early, funny ones," as an admirer remarks in STARDUST MEMORIES — this thin, clichéd comedy of crime and social climbing packs a lot of padding around its laughs. Frenchie Winkler (Tracey Ullman) has laid down the law to husband Ray (Allen): No more crime — she doesn't want to spend another anniversary looking at Ray through a plate of glass. But Ray and his half-witted buddies Tommy (Tony Darrow) and Denny (Michael Rapaport) have a great plan. There's this pizza parlor for rent, two storefronts down from a bank; if they rent the place they can tunnel into the bank vau...