A surrealistic fable of one man's descent into hell through a supreme loss of luck and a little trickery from unsavory denizens of the underworld.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 30, 2020

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 4, 2011

Far from a masterpiece, but Rhodes gives Buscemi a role ripe with emotion and a fascinating complexity. Buscemi returns the favor by powering the film with an engaging oddity.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 13, 2010

The performances are strong--even the minor characters--and the atmosphere and tone are spot-on for a dark comedy.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 5, 2010

Buscemi playing Buscemi is still entertaining, even after all these years.

| Original Score: C | Apr 14, 2010

You can take a gambler out of Las Vegas, but you can't take Las Vegas out of a gambler.

| Mar 25, 2010

good for a quick laugh, but ultimately an empty gesture.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 18, 2010

... slightly less than the sum of its parts ...

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 14, 2010

Don't get me wrong. I loved Buscemi's low-key performance. But I'm less crazy about the movie, which is sometimes oddly timed and funny and sometimes just plain flat.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 5, 2010

Trying desperately to be hip and cool, 'Saint John of Las Vegas' is fey and flimsy instead.

| Original Score: D | Feb 28, 2010

The script is both overly simple and unnecessarily complex. As we wander west without tension or purpose across an airless desert, the trip isn't all that enjoyable. For God's sake, are we there yet?

| Original Score: 3/10 | Feb 26, 2010

With a scattershot plot, one's attention may focus more acutely on the characterizations, adeptly handled by very skilled, principal actors.

| Original Score: C- | Feb 26, 2010

Buscemi delivers game and spry and pleasurable work, but writer-director Hue Rhodes drops him into a mess of a film and lets him dangle helpless and alone.

| Original Score: C- | Feb 26, 2010

It's a kind of cinematic purgatory, halfway between eternal reward and eternal damnation. The question is: What did I do to deserve such mediocrity?

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 19, 2010

It's a black comedy with a few exceptional scenes, but never gels together convincingly, making the artistic swing for the fences more of a quiet disappointment than a captivating leap of faith.

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 18, 2010

Theoretically, Saint John of Vegas may look good from a distance, but when seen up close it's only a house of cards.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 12, 2010

Saint John of Las Vegas was a bad script that somehow got made into a bad movie with good people in it.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 12, 2010

By the time it was over a part of me couldn't help but wonder why I stuck around until the very end.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 12, 2010

For all its clever quirkiness, the end product seems flat and over-thought, which isn't to say it's a bad first step for this ambitious novice director, just a long way from something that will set the world on fire.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 11, 2010