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Casino Jack

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Canada · 2010
Rated R · 1h 48m
Director George Hickenlooper
Starring Kevin Spacey, Kelly Preston, Hannah Endicott-Douglas, Rachelle Lefevre
Genre Comedy, Crime, Drama

This dark comedy recounts the rise and fall of super lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Jack builds his career through accepting money to influence others, but sometimes even he falls prey to stealthy persuasion. When it's time for him, his team, and his family to face the music, he won't go down without a fight and some good humor.

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The New York Times by A.O. Scott

The plot has so many moving parts - so many envelopes of money, dropped names, half-explained schemes and hasty flights - that it quickly becomes more frustrating than illuminating.

50

Los Angeles Times by Betsy Sharkey

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.

40

Time Out by David Fear

This is fertile material for a darkly comic indictment. Instead, we get recycled cynicism (politicians are hypocrites! more dirty money, more problems!) and Spacey's gallery of impersonations-W.C. Fields, Stallone, Reagan-in lieu of a flawed, flesh-and-blood human being.

40

Village Voice by J. Hoberman

In the grand finale, Abramoff fantasizes about using a Senate hearing to blow the whistle on the entire corrupt establishment. His rant offers a clue to how this otherwise pointlessly manic movie might have honed its political edge.

75

ReelViews by James Berardinelli

Above all, however, Kevin Spacey is the reason to see Casino Jack. 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 motivated.

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The Hollywood Reporter by Michael Rechtshaffen

Slick superlobbyist Jack Abramoff is the colorful subject of Casino Jack a similarly slick and undeniably entertaining true-life D.C. crime story, boasting a robust Kevin Spacey performance.

33

The A.V. Club by Scott Tobias

Spacey has made a career out of projecting the smarmy elitism of the powerful, but Casino Jack is so painfully clunky that he gets dragged down along with it.

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