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Casino Jack

2010

George Hickenlooper

Kevin Spacey, Barry Pepper, Kelly Preston, Rachelle Lefevre ...

5.3

1,125

Comedy A hot shot Washington DC lobbyist and his protégé go down hard as their schemes to peddle influence lead to corruption and murder. Kevin Spacey stars as a man hell bent on acquiring all that the good life has to offer. He plays in the same game as the highest of rollers and resorts to awe-inspiring levels of conning, scheming and fraudulent antics to get what he wants. Inspired by true events that are too over-the-top for even the ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"'Casino Jack' is so forthright, it is stunning (...) There are scenes here that make you wonder why the Abramoff scandals (plural) didn't outshine Watergate (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"The true tale of Jack Abramoff (...) has so many remarkable twists and colorful characters that it all but defeats Mr. Hickenlooper’s attempts to put it on screen in some intelligible form."	NEG
United States	The Hollywood Reporter	"Spacey’s fully-inhabited performance, as well as bright supporting turns from Barry Pepper, Kelly Preston and an amusingly gaudy Jon Lovitz makes for crowd-pleasing festival fare."	POS
United States	Betsy Sharkey Los Angeles Times	"Though the film is peppered with one-liners tailor-made for Spacey to sling with stinging effect, it doesn’t so much leave you laughing as just weary, and wishing this weren’t a true story at all."	NEG
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"[George Hickenlooper] leans heavily on the comedy buttons in Norman Snider's script. Too heavily (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU

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