Casino Jack's creators never look beyond the one or two "bad apples," not caring to see that bushels of them have fallen from a fatally poisoned tree.

| Mar 1, 2021

It gets old fast.

| Jan 21, 2020

Casino Jack manages to be entertaining and illuminating, even as it helps confirm some worst fears about what really goes into at least some of our nation's law-making.

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 16, 2019

Although Kevin Spacey bears no resemblance to the original Abramoff, his interpretation of this white-collar mobster is a real treat... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 17, 2018

George Hickenlooper's fact-based satire, starring Kevin Spacey and his ever-sharp comic timing, offers an antic version of the wheeler-dealer whose ambition and blinkered morality were close to caricature all along.

| Feb 7, 2018

Casino Jack is a funny and enjoyable film with great performances.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 3, 2013

too little too late

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Oct 2, 2013

Hickenlooper was a talented director with a clear, passionate love of movies. It's a shame his last one had to be this one.

| Original Score: D+ | Jun 22, 2013

Hickenlooper's approach to the subject plus a great performance by Kevin Spacey make Casino Jack an enjoyable comedy and thought provoking social commentary.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 4, 2012

Rather flat, but for Spacey's performance alone this is a fine examination of the U.S. political system and its inherent problems.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 13, 2011

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| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 29, 2011

Spacey and Hickenlooper take a sensitive, and possibly quite provocative subject and retell it in a way that is perhaps easier to reach for the not so politically inclined.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 1, 2011

...an odd and benighted film.

| Original Score: 82/100 | May 15, 2011

Excellent performances by Kevin Spacey and Barry Pepper in a movie that does measure up to its real-life story. And Jon Lovitz nearly steals the movie.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 5, 2011

"Casino Jack" works as a political film, it works as Shakespearian tragedy, and it works on the level of just plain Kevin Spacey goofiness.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 17, 2011

Setting aside the question of the wisdom of treating the material as comedy, the bigger problem is that Casino Jack simply isn't very funny.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 2, 2011

The depiction of Abramoff as a rogue and rascal who becomes the fall guy in an assembly of hypocrites seems to be a whitewash at best.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 18, 2011

What distinguishes Casino Jack, one version of lobbyist Jack Abramoff's story, is that it's often incomprehensible. That, we hasten to add, is not a good thing.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 28, 2011

The film has a complicated political story to tell, and its erratically suspenseful narrative often detracts from its central interest - what makes Abramoff tick.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 28, 2011

Casino Jack is really two movies: a convoluted tale about the exploits of disgraced Washington super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff, coupled with a zealous-if-misguided performance from Kevin Spacey in the title role.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 27, 2011