The Italian Job is a raucous, riotously funny exemplar of Cool Britannia at its coolest.
This revelatory restoration of Welles’s masterpiece could play a significant role in the film’s subsequent place in cinema's history.
In the film, Welles is at the height of his powers while reveling in the poetic force of Falstaff’s weakness.
Peter Collinson’s The Italian Job is a freewheeling, completely unpretentious chase comedy.
G-rated movies rarely start out by suggesting multiple orgies. The ones that do are to be cherished.