Why director Richard Linklater (Suburbia, Dazed and Confused) chose to take on a period drama about four boring bank robbers is beyond me. (The entire project reeks of ‘contractual obligations’.) The Newton Boys offers not one new or fresh idea into this stale genre. There's no conflict, no real plot and not one character who even remotely resembles a real person.

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