Greenspun, Roger. "Cops and Robbers (1973): Police Team Engineers Caper in 'Cops and Robbers'", The New York Times, August 16, 1973. “If anybody had told me even a week ago about a funny, exciting, semi-plausible, exceptionally intelligent caper movie, I would not have believed him. "Cops and Robbers," despite its title, and despite the slightly dumb-dumb ad campaign that is introducing it, is all those good things and more. It is uncommonly well acted. And it is the first movie in a long time to understand, rather than merely to exploit, its New York City locales.”
