Ambitious as it is, Even Money truly succeeds as a gripping story about our urge to want more; more love, or more money, or just more life

| Oct 25, 2008

Mediocre gambling drama is a pretty weak bet.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 1, 2007

Tannen's script dances with ridiculous one too many times.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 25, 2007

The film is definitely worth a look.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 24, 2007

most watchers will likely be too depressed to muster much sympathy for Even Money's downtrodden losers.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 15, 2007

Producer Bob Yari returns to the Crash well with Even Money and comes up with a turgid PSA about the dangers of gambling.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 10, 2007

| Original Score: C | Jun 2, 2007

Um, gambling's bad, mkay?

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | May 31, 2007

Just about everyone falls into a black hole of overwritten, overwrought melodrama in this convoluted disaster.

Full Review | May 21, 2007

The kind of strong, intelligent adult drama that was an endangered species in Hollywood until 'Crash'. Overall, it's a winning bet at the movies.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 21, 2007

To co-opt gambling addiction, which has roots far more complex than 'what we're willing to put on the line,' into the service of such facile moralizing seems tasteless.

| Original Score: D+ | May 19, 2007

Even Money never quite achieves [Crash's] epic badness -- but Kim Basinger's mortifying turn as the struggling writer is hysterical in every sense of the word.

| Original Score: 2/6 | May 19, 2007

Basinger screws up her face in angsty constipation, playing the slots... Like. She. Really. Means. It.

| May 18, 2007

This collection of cautionary anecdotes never adds up to much more than the sum of their obvious morals.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 18, 2007

Robert Tannen's first-produced screenplay certainly doesn't lack for story -- or clichs, for that matter. Nor does Tannen skimp on trite, predictable plot twists, or well-worn, stock characters in his pedestrian script.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 18, 2007

Strong performances save this somewhat melodramatic film from sudsing up, at least until the end.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 18, 2007

If you're looking for entertainment, save your 10 bucks for the lottery.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 18, 2007

The story is scarcely grounded in the mechanics of real-world expression.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 18, 2007

Director Mark Rydell is often good at evoking the desperation and superstitious hope that's a big part of the gaming spirit. This is nothing new, either, but it's enough to keep the movie intriguing enough to watch.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 18, 2007

This crime drama doesn't push any envelopes but delivers a smart package to more demanding filmgoers.

| May 18, 2007