| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 25, 2005

| Original Score: 1/4 | Nov 14, 2003

The Polish brothers are clearly talented; all they need now is a story that's more interesting than this one.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 22, 2003

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 8, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 1, 2002

The Polish brothers are onto something about their view of small-towns in the western part of America...

| Original Score: B- | Jan 2, 2002

"Jackpot" is a downbeat but effective character study ...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 21, 2001

Has its moments, but if we're meant to care about these losers, the film misses by a mile.

Full Review | Nov 2, 2001

This is a comedy but the laughter it prompts is dark and parched.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 12, 2001

Because there is no real chance Sunny will triumph -- Rocky this isn't -- we await the end with the same polite, mildly bemused vacancy with which we await the end of a serious karaoke performance, only without the benefit of alcohol.

| Oct 12, 2001

The Polish brothers seem more intent on giving their film an artsy sheen than on making sense of the characters or their plight.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 24, 2001

For anyone interested in a movie that wipes clean the grungy patina of self-delusionment, Jackpot hits solid pay dirt.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 24, 2001

These appealing characters wear out their welcome at about the same time it becomes apparent they're going nowhere slowly and that the teasing promises made by the story's fractured sensibility will be modestly realized at best.

Full Review | Sep 21, 2001

Ends up a lot like Sunny's singing: pointless and more than a little flat.

| Sep 21, 2001

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 17, 2001

Jackpot's song skips about the countryside never hitting full groove.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 8, 2001

Ultimately, Sunny is too hopeless to really care about.

| Sep 7, 2001

A disappointing tease of a movie, all low-rent glimmer and ominous hints of something awful that either happened or is going to happen.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 31, 2001

Being the kind of film that opts for visual flash over intellectual (or emotional) substance, Jackpot doesn't hold up for the long haul.

| Aug 31, 2001