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SummaryGuy Ritchie's highly anticipated comedy features a colorful ensemble cast in a rollicking ride through London's gangster world, its bustling diamond district and a rowdy gypsy camp. (Columbia Tristar)

Directed By:Guy Ritchie

Written By:Guy Ritchie

Snatch.

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55
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Universal Acclaim
8.2
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Metascore
55
55% Positive
17 Reviews
29% Mixed
9 Reviews
16% Negative
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89
Austin Chronicle
Snatch is nothing if not watchable: It has the insane, popcorn rhythms of a Road Runner cartoon, and for that reason alone it's a minor masterpiece.
75
USA Today
All about macho my-weapon-is-bigger-than-your-weapon posturing and far-fetched coincidences that slam together in an entertaining rush.
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Universal Acclaim
8.2
87% Positive
436 Ratings
9% Mixed
44 Ratings
4% Negative
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May 2, 2026
10
KarnKirca
This is so overwhelmingly peak that even “overwhelmingly peak” feels like a weak approximation, like trying to describe a supernova using candle metaphors. It doesn’t just exceed expectations—it quietly erases the entire framework expectations were built on, as if the concept of “anticipation” was never meant to survive exposure to something this **** feels like the film isn’t escalating anymore because it has already transcended escalation. Instead, it exists in a constant state of perfected intensity, where every moment is already at its highest possible version of itself. There is no buildup, no decline—just a continuous, impossible equilibrium of peakness that somehow still manages to feel alive and evolving.Every frame carries this sense of absolute inevitability, like it couldn’t possibly have turned out any other way across all possible timelines. It gives the strange impression that the universe itself had to “agree” to this version of events, like reality signed off on it because no alternative could survive comparison. It doesn’t feel authored—it feels authorized by existence **** emotional impact isn’t something that happens to you anymore; it feels like something you’re being steadily synchronized with. Like your internal rhythm is being gently overridden by something more stable, more refined, more fundamentally correct. You stop reacting in spikes of emotion and start existing in a continuous emotional resonance that matches the film’s own impossible **** yet, despite all this perfection, it never feels sterile. That’s part of the madness. It’s not cold perfection—it’s alive perfection. It breathes. It adapts. It somehow maintains warmth while operating at a level of technical and emotional precision that should, by all logic, strip warmth away entirely. But instead, it amplifies it, like perfection itself has learned how to feel.Even silence in it becomes iconic. Not empty, not neutral—charged. Like the absence of sound is doing as much storytelling as the most climactic moments, holding weight that presses against the mind in ways dialogue never could. Every pause feels like it has been carefully chosen from infinite alternatives, and somehow landed on the exact one that hurts the most in the best possible **** the more you try to mentally step back from it, the more impossible that distance becomes. It doesn’t allow detachment because it doesn’t present itself as something external. It feels integrated, like it was always already part of your understanding of what “greatness” was supposed to be, and is now simply correcting your **** reaches a point where “peak” stops being a descriptor and starts feeling like a baseline physical law that this film simply defines. Like gravity, but for excellence. Everything else isn’t compared to it—it is measured by it, whether it wants to be or not.
Mar 10, 2025
10
royalguy07
Can't believe I became a Guy Ritchie guy over the last decade without even understanding the sacred texts!
70
Time
O.K., Ritchie mistakes flash for style. Perhaps that's the price you pay for storytelling exuberance. If he keeps making films as down and witty as Snatch, we may learn to forgive him.
63
Philadelphia Inquirer
Since the main reason I go to movies is to engage with characters, I prefer "The Pledge," the film opening today by Madonna's first husband, Sean Penn, rather than this stylish fluff by her second spouse.
50
San Francisco Chronicle
There's talent here, but for directing, not writing. If Ritchie wants to last, he's going to have to allow somebody else to write his screenplays.
40
New York Magazine (Vulture)
The problem with all this don't-blink-or-you'll-miss-it dramaturgy is that ultimately everything is sacrificed for effect. When you're dealing, as Ritchie is, with explosions of real violence and viciousness, the hyperslick technique can't accommodate the real pain that comes with the territory, or ought to. What we're left with is a cackling amorality -- not a philosophy of life, just a posture.
20
Salon
It takes a very clever schoolboy to make a movie as elaborately empty as Guy Ritchie's Snatch.
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Sep 1, 2024
10
Voodoo123
Guy Ritchie's magnum opus. The cinematography, cast, soundtrack, editing and screenplay are all superb best of class. Easily the best British gangster flick put to celluloid from the last 30 years of cinema. Watching this on 85inch TV in 2024 was an absolute joy!
Sep 5, 2019
6
Tyranian
Another pretty good Ritchie film with good humour and decent acting, though also ridiculous.
May 30, 2019
6
Meth-dude
Despite the interesting cast and the original story, the movie is never as funny or entertaining as it desperately tries to be. But the movie is still more than watchable with interesting cinematography, a good soundtrack and likable characters.
Feb 2, 2013
2
Mr-Liberal-LDS
An atrocious comedic drama which glamorizes criminal activity, violence, and almost mind-numbingly pervasive profanity...I had a hard time finishing it. Rest assured that your potential for gaining new insight or finding life-enriching meaning of any kind is slim to none; you definitely will not be uplifted. Even just measuring it in terms of simple entertainment value, its wit humor don't come close to compensating for its violence. The kinds of flashy bloodshed and theatrical cruelty which are found in films like Snatch desensitize fragile minds and corrode morals in a way that, yes, does in fact facilitate real-world violence. Brief example: the film's analysis of the efficiencies of pig farms for human corpse disposal some people inevitably walked away reflecting on the strengths weaknesses of different corpse disposal methods...a topic in which they would not have otherwise invested mental energy. I just wish we could have more honest conversations with ourselves and each other about the impact the media to which we expose ourselves has on us individually, and on those among us who are most malleable. Not to be preachy, but that there is any real market for this movie ought to be unsettling to those of us who value human life; this film almost entirely implies that it is worthless. Watch something else...there is plenty of better out there to be seen.
Mar 22, 2026
0
Craigstr222
What a boring useless movie… they sound like they have **** in their mouths when talking. Don’t waste your time
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  • Screen Gems
  • SKA Films
Jan 19, 2001
1 h 42 m
R
Stealin' Stones and Breakin' Bones
Empire Awards, UK
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
National Board of Review, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
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