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By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 17 Dec 2010

[H]ow a bill becomes a law in DC--a comedy. . .Spacey gives the full razzle dazzle of a flamboyant, complex idealist-turned-wheeler dealer…

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By Marshall Fine (1,011) for Hollywood & Fine (854) on 17 Dec 2010

Great fun and strong filmmaking, encapsulating the hubris and self-aggrandizement that marked the career of uber-lobbyist Jack Abramoff…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 16 Dec 2010

Above all, however, Kevin Spacey is the reason to see Casino Jack…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Movieline (883) on 16 Dec 2010

Hickenlooper too often approaches his subject with the filmmaking equivalent of a wry chuckle…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for The New York Times (9,847) on 16 Dec 2010

The plot has so many moving parts - so many envelopes of money, dropped names, half-explained schemes and hasty flights - that it quickly becomes…

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By Betsy Sharkey (695) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 16 Dec 2010

Though the film is peppered with one-liners tailor-made for Spacey to sling with stinging effect, it doesn't so much leave you laughing as…

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By Elizabeth Weitzman (1,905) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 16 Dec 2010

The trouble starts with the casting…

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By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 16 Dec 2010

Spacey has made a career out of projecting the smarmy elitism of the powerful, but Casino Jack is so painfully clunky that he gets dragged…

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By Chris Cabin (484) for Filmcritic.com (3,164) on 16 Dec 2010

Abramoff offers Spacey his most distinct and galvanic character since his highly entertaining take on Lex Luthor in Superman Returns…

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By Alonso Duralde (1,351) for MSNBC (243) on 15 Dec 2010

[T]his year's non-fiction treatment of the Jack Abramoff story, Alex Gibney's Casino Jack and the United States of Money, crackles and engages…

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By Armond White (604) for New York Press (561) on 15 Dec 2010

Spacey seems to think he's making a comedy -- a good actorly instinct -- but director George Hickenlooper makes the offensive decision to treat…

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By David Fear (910) for Time Out (7,510) on 14 Dec 2010

This is fertile material for a darkly comic indictment. Instead, we get recycled cynicism (politicians are hypocrites…

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By J. Hoberman (756) for Village Voice (8,525) on 14 Dec 2010

In the grand finale, Abramoff fantasizes about using a Senate hearing to blow the whistle on the entire corrupt establishment…

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By Kam Williams (1,272) for TheLoop21.com (40) on 11 Dec 2010

A revisionist history bio-pic, reminiscent of Charlie Wilson's War, which recasts an arrogant influence-peddler behaving like he's above the…

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By Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat (3,072) for Spirituality and Practice (3,072) on 10 Dec 2010

A fast-paced and spunky depiction of the power-plays, greed, corruption, and grandiosity of GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff, a larger-than-life…

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By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 08 Dec 2010

Coming just a few months on the heels of Alex Gibney's Jack Abramoff documentary, director George Hickenlooper's feature version shellacs rather…

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By Rob Humanick (476) for Projection Booth (270) on 05 Dec 2010

Embodies the apathy of all those bad liberals who talk about how terrible things are and continue about their day…

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By Marty Mapes (591) for Movie Habit (892) on 03 Nov 2010

Spacey transforms a villain into a mere scoundrel…

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