A love story like no other, Mike Figgis's Leaving Las Vegas is a bleak, mesmerizing rhapsody of self-destruction, defiantly uninterested in peddling Hollywood-style uplift.

| Feb 23, 2018

This movie was like watching a car crash in slow motion. You knew there was going to be a crash, but I just wished it would just happen already, and not have spent two hours getting to the impact.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 12, 2017

Dark and giddy at the same time, Leaving Las Vegas takes us into dreamy, intoxicated places no movie about an alcoholic has gone before.

| Original Score: A- | Sep 7, 2011

We're not talking high, morally instructive tragedy here, just a hard lesson in postmodernist outlawry and its sad little anarchies.

| Sep 19, 2008

The film pulls no punches, takes no prisoners and flies in the face of feel-good pictures.

Full Review | Feb 11, 2008

The plot goes nowhere, but under the pornographic circumstances Figgis, Cage, and Shue all do fine jobs.

| Feb 11, 2008

It certainly has the courage of its convictions.

| Jun 24, 2006

Small, searing film.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 20, 2003

A uniquely hypnotic and haunting love story sparked by Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue at their career best.

| May 12, 2001

A film laden with virtues but difficult to embrace.

| Feb 13, 2001

Tough to watch, but haunting enough to deserve its initial praise.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Leaving Las Vegas is the kind of movie that feels like a terrific place to visit, but you know in your heart that you'd never want to dwell there.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Cage, a resourceful and daring actor, has never been better.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000