Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
First screened in August 2020

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Director: Guy Ritchie. Cast: Nick Moran, Jason Flemyng, Jason Statham, Dexter Fletcher, P.H. Moriarty, Vinnie Jones, Lenny McLean, Stephen Marcus, Steven Mackintosh, Nicholas Rowe, Nick Marcq, Charles Forbes, Vas Blackwood, Suzy Ratner, Peter McNicholl, Frank Harper, Ronnie Fox, Huggy Leaver, Tony McMahon, Steve Sweeney, Rob Brydon, Sting. Screenplay: Guy Ritchie.

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Twitter Capsule: Fun assembly—even more for the makers than for us? Direction pops but characters don't quite.

VOR: ③  A clear stylistic calling-card, but who is it calling, beyond itself? Lively as entertainment, yet the only trail it really blazes is Ritchie's.

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Photo © 1998 Summit Entertainment/Steve Tisch Company/ SKA Films, © 1999 Gramercy Pictures

Not yet reviewed in full. Grade: B–

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Awards:
	National Board of Review: Special Recognition for Excellence in Filmmaking
	British Academy Awards (BAFTAs): Audience Award

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