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

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

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

So devoted to sustaining shock and awe that it doesn't bother to offer clues about the causes and treatment of gambling addiction.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | May 18, 2007

Hot on the heels of Lucky You, we have another movie about gambling addiction, and it's even less successful.

| Original Score: C- | May 17, 2007

Cleverly plotted, suspensefully structured, professionally acted and tightly written.

Full Review | May 16, 2007

An overstructured, overacted indie drama.

| Original Score: C- | May 16, 2007

The problem with ensemble films, and this one in particular, is that they often flit instead of float between story arcs.

Full Review | May 15, 2007

Tethered to the standard multicharacter drama conventions that can be seen most nights on ABC, Even Money hardly delves beneath the surface of its moralistic overview of the sins and ramifications of gambling addiction.

Full Review | May 9, 2007

Shouldn't an overwrought drama about the life-shattering effects of gambling addiction make some effort, before delivering its moral, to show why people gamble in the first place?

Full Review | Mar 19, 2006