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By Matt Pais (1,519) for Metromix.com (1,085) on 30 Dec 2010

Tackles the ultimate fall of Abramoff with an almost stunning lack of authenticity. Sees Jack the way Jack sees himself, not the way he actually is…

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By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 30 Dec 2010

Tonally scattershot and more than a little heavy-footed…

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By John Esther (94) for UR Chicago Magazine (83) on 26 Dec 2010

Conceptually reminiscent of what Robert Altman did to skewer Hollywood in The Player, Hickenlooper adopts an anti-cleverly narrative by using…

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By Elias Savada (386) for Film Threat (5,156) on 24 Dec 2010

it's time to put at least one nasty episode in comic perspective, to reflect on some of the ridiculous realities of American political life…

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By Walter V. Addiego (363) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 22 Dec 2010

It's a movie of sporadically entertaining scenes that add up to a vaguely unsatisfying whole…

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By Walter Addiego (380) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 22 Dec 2010

The entertaining work by Spacey and Pepper is a good thing because the film has problems, including an utter lack of subtlety…

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By Kelly Vance (1,015) for East Bay Express (1,012) on 22 Dec 2010

Instead of two stars, give it three Maalox bottles…

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By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 22 Dec 2010

That's the problem with the whole movie, which lies halfway between poker-face documentary and broad farce…

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By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 21 Dec 2010

Kevin Spacey gives a bravura performance as superlobbyist Jack Abramoff in George Hickenlooper's uneven but often loopily entertaining Casino Jack…

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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 21 Dec 2010

Despite some sharp moments, just too messy and uneven to hit the target consistently…

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By Jeffrey M. Anderson (3,573) for Common Sense Media (4,943) on 21 Dec 2010

The biggest asset in Casino Jack is Spacey, who plays Abramoff as the cynical, snappy type of character he made so memorable in American Beauty…

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By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 19 Dec 2010

Hickenlooper offers a one-dimensional portrait of a jacked-up Abramoff…

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By Susan Granger (2,214) for SSG Syndicate (1,551) on 19 Dec 2010

Irreverent and satirical with cocksure brilliant Kevin Spacey adroitly handling the constantly shifting, darkly absurdist allegiances…

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By Lou Lumenick (2,103) for New York Post (6,650) on 17 Dec 2010

One of the highlights of Casino Jack is Abramoff doing dead-on impressions of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Ronald Reagan, among others…

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By Fred Topel (1,193) for Screen Junkies (147) on 17 Dec 2010

I'd probably watch a movie like Casino Jack on TV and think, 'Yup, that's pretty much what I thought happened.' Nothing more…

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By Edward Douglas (1,395) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 17 Dec 2010

Embellishing Jack Abramoff's story with so much humor makes the film feel more like a political parody than a document of what really happened…

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By Barbara Goslawski (26) for Boxoffice Magazine (2,896) on 17 Dec 2010

A refreshing take on the political crime drama…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 17 Dec 2010

Golden Globe nominee Kevin Spacey has a ball and then some playing the devil inside Jack Abramoff, the corrupt GOP lobbyist who ran wild during…

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By Chris Barsanti (896) for PopMatters (2,617) on 17 Dec 2010

suspended uneasily somewhere between comedy and drama…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for BrianOrndorf.com (1,055) on 17 Dec 2010

Spacey never transforms into the role. The part is tailored to match Spacey's favorite pastime: Playing Kevin Spacey…

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