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Casino Jack
2010
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Casino Jack
Positive Reviews
35
Negative reviews
11
Average Rating
3.1
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1.5
Its like a lugubrious TV movie version of Oliver Stones W. : agonizingly paced, indifferently filmed, and choked with dialogue straight from press con ..
Av Club
3.5
Its sharp, snappy and always exciting.It manages to be witty without being pretentious and its always careful on what side to take.
We Got This Covered
2.5
Musically scored like a Sixties sex comedy and edited, seemingly, with the aid of an egg timer, Casino Jack moves with such manic determination it all ..
Austin Chronicle
1.5
Furthermore, I dont expect to see anyone give it another shot: theres simply very, very little thats cinematic about this particular story.
Collider
3.8
It remains one of the best records ever made about the making of a film.
Rogerebert
2.0
The trouble starts with the casting.The usually reliable Kevin Spacey never quite gets a handle on Abramoff, an Orthodox Jew devoted to unorthodox bus ..
Ny Daily News
4.0
The true story of Abramoffs downfall is certainly compelling source mater but does Casino Jack deliver as enjoyable film entertainment
Screen Rant
3.1
In Spaceys masterful hands, Abramoff is intelligent, charismatic, driven, impulsive and apparently genuinely religious.
The Globe And Mail
2.5
Gibneys documentary hit harder by keeping a straight face while laying out the facts of Abramoffs increasingly outrageous schemes.
Philly
2.5
The doc, full of C Span clips, talking heads, and archival footage, told the same story: a charismatic hustler from Orthodox Jewish roots who worshipp ..
Philly
4.0
This mattress salesman is totally incompetent and winds up paying Big Tony (Maury Chaykin) to teach the Greek a lesson.
Spirituality And Practice
1.0
His rant offers a clue to how this otherwise pointlessly manic movie might have honed its political edge.
Village Voice
3.1
tried to make sense of it all, and then conjured a Hollywood ending. The trouble is, the Hollywood/D.C. hustler Jack Abramoff never actually provided ..
Rogers Movie Nation
4.0
See our full review: The Two Jacks Commercial success wasnt in the cards for a documentary on corrupt lobbyist Jack Abramoff.Will a new drama fare bet ..
Chicago Reader
2.5
Though its a showcase for Spacey, Casino Jack is a shallow, confused account of the political game at its worst also known as business as usual.
Mark Reviews Movies
3.1
Golden Globe nominee Kevin Spacey has a ball and then some playing the devil inside Jack Abramoff, the corrupt GOP lobbyist who ran wild during the W. ..
Rolling Stone
3.0
One way to understand the form of Walther Ruttmanns Berlin, Symphony of a Great City, is to see it as producing states of flow that reinforce a flat o ..
Pop Matters
3.5
Spacey is usually tiptop in movies that bring out his inner sleazeball.
Cs Monitor
3.5
While there are many sharp lines, the screenplay strains for Jerry Maguire wit and pathos but falls short.
Film Journal
2.5
Thats why Gibneys documentary will outlast this blithe diversion.
Boston
3.0
Considering the fact that its only now making its way to town after making no dent whatever with the Oscarseven with all those hopeful screeners the d ..
Mountain X
1.9
If Abramoff comes off as a slick but soulless cypher given to eruptions of cornball machismo, his co conspirators are entertaining buffoons.
Star Tribune
3.1
It is a crystalline moment of character development, establishing in the very first moments that Abramoff is a man of great intensity, passion, and de ..
Q Network
2.8
type Movie Current Status In Season mpaa R runtime 108 minutes Wide Release Date 12/17/10 performer Jon Lovitz, Barry Pepper, Kevin Spacey, Graham Gre ..
Ew
3.5
Susan Grangers review of Casino Jack (ATO Pictures) Washington is Hollywood with ugly faces, Jack Abramoff once observed.A former Beverly Hills brat w ..
Susang Ranger
3.0
Overall, its an interesting, funny, and irreverent portrait of our troubled times.
Common Sense Media
3.5
Be it Jack or Bernie or some Ponzi scheme, here its time to put at least one nasty episode in comic perspective, to reflect on some of the ridiculous ..
Flim Threet
2.5
Its a movie of sporadically entertaining scenes that add up to a vaguely unsatisfying whole.
Sf Gate
2.5
No one expects absolute fidelity to historical fact in a docudrama, but the more speculative moments in Hickenloopers film serve to inflect Abramoffs ..
Slant Magazine
2.8
This is a slickly made, slickly told tale of greed and avarice but it lacks soul.
Reeling Reviews
2.8
This is a slickly made, slickly told tale of greed and avarice but it lacks soul.
Reeling Reviews
2.5
Casino Jack doesnt quite take its satire far enough, and while it could have been a sort of unconventional take on a stranger than fiction true story ..
Las Vegas Weekly
3.8
This movie will stand alongside The Usual Suspects and American Beauty as examples of what the actor is capable of accomplishing when he is properly m ..
ReelViews
3.5
George Hickenloopers energetic feature is perfectly content to focus its allotted time on the man of the hour, whose delusions of increasing grandeur ..
Hollywood Reporter
2.5
Coming just a few months on the heels of Alex Gibneys Jack Abramoff documentary, director George Hickenloopers feature version shellacs rather than sh ..
Coles Mithey
2.5
But at other times it can feel heavy handed, for example when the word lobbyist is deconstructed on screen like a Websters definition and even Spaceys ..
Los Angeles Times
4.5
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Hit Fix
2.5
The stellar efforts of everyone in front of and behind the camera are unfortunately diminished by the exceedingly deliberate pace, with the end result ..
Reel Film
2.5
If youve already seen Gibneys documentary (or remember the newspaper coverage), everything here is going to feel tiresomely familiar.If you havent, no ..
Nj
4.0
He managed to control the chaos of Abramoffs dealings without oversimplifying the scandal and without boring the audience with awkward exposition.
Movie Habit
1.5
Finally, while this film is pretty well acted, I got extremely annoyed with Kevin Spacey doing impressions of movie stars.I know this was Jack Abramof ..
7M Pictures
2.5
Being driven to succeed is part of the American Dream and Abramoffs passionate and oft professed love of God, family and country dovetails with that h ..
The Star
3.8
Convicted super lobbyist Jack Abramoff is such a rich subject that hes inspired Casino Jack, a hilariously entertaining feature film starring an inspi ..
New York Post
4.1
Its a funny movie, though not as funny as Gibneys documentary.And its a little scary too, though if you can take Inside Job youll have no problem with ..
Ar Kansas Online
4.0
Still, its surprisingly funny and entertaining, though it leaves a bitter taste, given what has happened in the past six months or so.Print This Post
Hollywood And Fine
2.2
The performance is tiring, never insightful, and despite Abramoffs own imagination for movie quotes and celebrity impressions, Spacey never transforms ..
Brian Or Ndorf
3.0
This creates a rather strange tone that veers closer towards dark absurdist comedy than drama, and its a strange direction to take with this story.
ComingSoon
3.5
But Hickenloopers sense of the ridiculous is bracing, a reminder that his death is the film worlds genuine loss. >> NEXT: The Tempest: The One .. if Y ..
News Week
4.5
Best line of dialogue by screenwriter Norman Snider: You fellas on the right used to have ideas, but now that communism is gone, all you can think abo ..
East Bay Express
2.0
The actual Abramoff is more stolid than Spacey will ever be.Beyond trimming Abramoff down, if Spacey is limited, its because his character never visit ..
Tony Mack
3.0
Such a big story in American politics deserves a more reverent retelling than this film provides, but taken on its own merits Casino Jack is a fun, da ..
The National
5.0
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Ny Press
3.0
There is something fascinating in seeing a really successful criminal mind doing his thing.
Leepers Us
1.5
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New York Metro Mix
2.2
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Ifc
4.5
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Screen Junkies
1.8
Youre just supposed to sit there and tsk tsk just like the filmmakers.
Yahoo Movies
3.5
Jack Abramoff (Kevin Spacey) and Michael Scanlon (Barry Pepper) in Casino Jack.
Jestherent Blog Spot
3.0
Yet, despite Spaceys performance and the films obvious passion to shine a light on the seedier side of politics (its based on a true story), it still ..
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