- Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
- Release Date: May 2, 2003
- Starring: John Hurt, Minnie Driver, Philip Seymour Hoffman
- Summary:
- Director: Richard Kwietniowski
- Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Crime
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 22 out of 29
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Mixed: 7 out of 29
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Negative: 0 out of 29
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100There have been many good movies about gambling, but never one that so single-mindedly shows the gambler at his task.
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80As channeled by the extraordinary Hoffman, Dan Mahowny is less a freak than a nerve-deadened Everyman with the courage to search for something that makes him feel alive.
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80Atlantic City casino boss played with pointedly corrupt amusement by John Hurt, doesn't merely oversee hell but gets a real kick out of the damned.
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60Just doesn't give us enough to hold onto, perhaps partly because it's executed with so much restraint and subtlety. It's often a tense, uncomfortable little movie.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 7 out of 7
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Mixed: 0 out of 7
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Negative: 0 out of 7
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