American Casino
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  • Summary: This film finally explains how and why over $12 trillion of our money vanished into the American Casino. As the global financial system crumbles and outraged but impotent lawmakers fume at Wall Street titans, we see the casino’s endgame: Riverside, California a foreclosure wasteland given o over to colonies of rats and methamphetamine labs, where disease-bearing mosquitoes breed in their millions on the stagnant swimming pools of yesterday’s dreams. Filmed over twelve months in 2008, American Casino takes you inside a game that our grandchildren never wanted to play. (Arogot Pictures)… Expand

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 16
  3. Negative: 0 out of 16
  1. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: Michael Sragow
    88
    It's a nightmare that starts like a normal daytime drive and ends in a vortex-like sinkhole.
  2. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Andrew O'Hehir
    80
    This film stands as an intimate, terrifying document that renders an incomprehensible slice of recent history in human terms.
  3. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Scott Tobias
    58
    The film doesn’t come to life until too late in the game.
  4. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
    50
    There's valuable information here and some human stories that deserve to be heard.

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