Whether or not you think of gambling as a vice, you can bet on Owning Mahowny.

Full Review | Sep 12, 2003

Owning Mahowny is an unflashy but fascinating meditation on addiction and greed.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 22, 2003

A clammy, compulsively watchable almost-comedy.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 8, 2003

This is a small story, as quiet and unassuming as its main character. And, like Mahowny, it makes few wrong moves and quite a few right ones.

| Original Score: B | Jul 5, 2003

Despite its intelligence, it's dreary and uninvolving, more an exercise in style than an act of love.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 4, 2003

Works so well both as social satire and outlaw character study.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 27, 2003

Because the movie is a portrait of such a buttoned-down personality, viewers may find themselves anxious for more action than the movie provides.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 22, 2003

The film doesn't really offer much behind its story.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Jun 20, 2003

Hoffman plays it so close to his chest we can't help but be amused by a hubris that resembles self-hypnosis.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 20, 2003

Owning Mahowny confirms Philip Seymour Hoffman's reputation as one of the screen's consummate actors.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 19, 2003

Collapses into a public service announcement on gambling.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 13, 2003

An odd little acting exercise for Philip Seymour Hoffman and John Hurt, two of the best actors of their respective generations.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Jun 12, 2003

As channeled by the extraordinary Hoffman, Dan Mahowny is less a freak than a nerve-deadened Everyman with the courage to search for something that makes him feel alive.

Full Review | Jun 6, 2003

The filmmakers have taken a bet that an unsexy, unpretty and unconventional movie about bank robbery and gambling can be as captivating as its flashier mainstream counterparts, and they've won.

Full Review | Jun 6, 2003

Hoffman's soft-spoken, ultra-low-key demeanor is a perfect fit for Mahowny.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 5, 2003

Add another movie to the list of those in which Philip Seymour Hoffman plays a pasty, schlubby, mouth-breathing loser in a suit so cheap it shines -- and put it at or near the top.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 30, 2003

A fascinating fact-based portrait of gambling addict Dan Mahowny.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 16, 2003

Philip Seymour Hoffman's performance is a masterpiece of discipline and precision.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 16, 2003

For all the millions its antihero fritters away, the movie is dramatically miserly, with a scope too small for the emotions at stake.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 16, 2003

Hoffman rewards us with a subtle performance, never quite opening himself up.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 15, 2003