His wife even claims she's caught him practicing during sex.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 5, 2020

[T]he way that it introduces its subject, follows him through a turning point in his life, and conveys it all with a purposeful cinematicity just begs to be unpacked.

| Jun 30, 2020

A moving account of a family overcoming disability as well as a kind of advocacy piece for the nationwide legalization of gambling.

| Jun 3, 2020

"Dealt" is a documentary of such deep human beauty that the less you know going in, the more fresh your experience will be when you watch the film.

| Original Score: A+ | Apr 23, 2018

Beloved and admired, Turner has led a full life, and Dealt is a fitting tribute to his many accomplishments.

| Jan 24, 2018

A lively and endlessly fascinating documentary that achieves a rewarding intimacy with its subject, Dealt holds all the aces.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 17, 2018

Richard Turner is an amazing figure.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 8, 2017

If you thought card tricks by sighted people were neat, you ain't seen nothin' yet.

| Nov 30, 2017

This is a movie that has lots of magic, in more ways than one.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 29, 2017

The film's story is deeply moving, and Korem wisely doesn't doll it up with a lot of fancy, stylized cinematic sleight of hand.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 17, 2017

"What he does with cards, a magician can't do," says [Turner's] son and stage manager Asa Spades Turner. Director Luke Korem's documentary proves the lad's point.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2017

The documentary Dealt tells a fascinating and inspirational story about a charming individual, but the movie takes way too long to tell it.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 17, 2017

Magicians aren't supposed to reveal their secrets, but this compelling documentary provides plenty of insight.

| Nov 10, 2017

In Dealt, director Luke Koren masterfully tells the story of a man, who through hard work and discipline overcame his disability.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 8, 2017

If only all of our third acts turned out that way.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 2, 2017

He may have begun the years-long project to illustrate Turner's accomplishments, but Korem ended up with a richer profile of a perfectionist who realizes he still has things to learn.

| Oct 31, 2017

"Dealt" achieves the neat trick of giving its main subject a rewarding character arc.

| Oct 26, 2017

It's well shot but never flashy, and it's well cut, making for a generally rounded film that disappears behind the larger than life personality at its core, a height few films manage to reach.

| Original Score: A- | Oct 19, 2017

Lively and informative documentary about a brilliant sleight-of-hand magician who has a black belt in karate-and is blind.

| Oct 19, 2017

The card magician Richard Turner reveals that he has more than just a few tricks up his sleeve in Luke Korem's captivating documentary "Dealt."

| Oct 19, 2017