A slow-motion death in which every narrative decision taken is the wrong one, with clumsy plot twists that trip on themselves. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 17, 2023

A patchwork work of two creative pieces, and composed of two different personalities. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 9, 2023

...left to his own devices, apparently, Crowe prefers to show the sensitive side for which he’s rarely cast.

| Dec 7, 2022

Thematic density strips energy and novelty from a film that just never finds its way. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/10 | Dec 5, 2022

I think this movie is full of imperfections and almost all of them are forgivable. Not the ending, however. It’s a pair of sevens.

| Dec 3, 2022

Crowe flirts with various genres but doesn't commit to any, and his character, who later on aims to become the story's moral compass, isn't more than a blank page, the least charismatic leader ever. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 2, 2022

The artist formerly known as Russ Le Roq's return behind the camera for the first time since 2014's The Water Diviner feels both shallow and deeply disappointing.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 1, 2022

Poker Face ignores the meaning of its title and shows its cards almost immediately. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 1, 2022

Crowe’s direction is efficient at best, intrusive at worst... None of this really matters if you’re grooving with the plot, but that’s a big if. For a film about poker players, it’s all a bit obvious.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 30, 2022

I don't know why this is the movie in all movies in the world that Russell Crowe wanted to direct, but it has some surprises here and there. An OK B-movie.

| Nov 30, 2022

Poker Face is an uneven movie that never really finds a rhythm because it never lays all of its cards on the table.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 29, 2022

A film that is constantly trying to bluff its way out of the story it sets up to be and like the gambler who keeps chasing their losses it is way too far in the hole to develop any interest late when it finally settles into a plot it wants to follow.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Nov 28, 2022

Perhaps, on a metatextual, conceptual level, the idea was to bluff on an empty hand, in which case: bravo. But that doesn’t add up to a film worth watching.

| Nov 23, 2022

It may, in fact, be a homage to ‘80s-era straight-to-video dreck, so perfectly does it capture that sub-genre’s faux-macho posturing, bewilderingly silly plotting and retrograde use of women in support parts.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Nov 23, 2022

It’s a half-baked story, despite the star’s commanding presence and solid directorial skills.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 23, 2022

Thrillers with a small cast and a handful of locations aren’t exactly rare on streaming services. It’s a genre where the bar is usually set fairly low; here Crowe has dealt himself a winning hand.

| Nov 22, 2022

Poker Face layers its schemes on top of one another, hoping something interesting will happen through sheer volume. But, as any card player worth his chips should know, trying to make up for bad hands by playing more of them is a surefire way to go broke.

| Original Score: 3.4/10 | Nov 20, 2022

With its awkward tonal shifts and lack of character depth, the film struggles to sustain any meaningful suspense or generate much rooting interest amid its brooding and macho posturing.

| Nov 18, 2022

It feels like Crowe wasn’t confident in his primary theme of what breaks and repairs friendships, so he tossed in heaps of nonsense to cover his ass. Not only was that ploy unnecessary but it hurts his movie immeasurably.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 18, 2022

There’s not much to this unremarkable and frustratingly shallow endeavor.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 18, 2022