Leaving Las Vegas

"A uniquely hypnotic and haunting love story (...) You can't take your eyes off these actors. (...) Cage and Shue make it something more visceral and immediate: a cry from the heart." 

"A small, searing film (...) a character study, pitilessly well observed and intimately familiar with its terrain. (...) 'Leaving Las Vegas' is far less dolorous than might be expected. Passionate and furiously alive" 

"A weirdly haunting experience (...) Dark and giddy at the same time, 'Leaving Las Vegas' takes us into dreamy, intoxicated places no movie about an alcoholic has gone before." 

"One of the best films of the year (...) That he is an alcoholic and she works the streets are simply the turnings they have taken. Beneath their occupations are their souls. And because Ben essentially has given up on his, the film becomes Sera's story, about how even in the face of certain defeat we can, at least, insist on loving, and trying.