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By Andrea Chase (1,182) for Killer Movie Reviews (1,182) on 10 May 2003

This is strictly Hoffman's film. . . and in a turn as unexpected as it is brilliant, he makes boring interesting…

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By Glenn Kenny (1,728) for Premiere Magazine (318) on 08 May 2003

At its best, Mahowny is intricate, engrossing, wryly funny, and strangely poetic…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Ebert & Roeper (629) on 04 May 2003

Owning Mahowny is one of the better character studies of the year…

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By Jan Stuart (404) for Newsday (2,345) on 30 Apr 2003

Richard Kwietniowski's deliberately paced film attempts to externalize the very internalized agony of gambling addiction…

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By James Rocchi (1,075) for Netflix (481) on 30 Apr 2003

Philip Seymour Hoffman gives a quietly compelling performance as a financial whiz with plenty to lose…

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By Walter Chaw (1,360) for Film Freak Central (1,643) on 30 Apr 2003

The film's title is not so much in reference to the addiction that claimed a man as it is a warning and an invitation to embrace a collective shadow…

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By Maitland Mcdonagh (2,150) for TV Guide (1,527) on 30 Apr 2003

Ironically, it's most engaging when the focus shifts to Hurt's matter-of-factly amoral enabler, whose glistening suits and jewel-colored shirt-and-tie…

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By Claudia Puig (2,080) for USA Today (4,117) on 30 Apr 2003

There are some effectively suspenseful moments in the movie, particularly during the gambling sequences, but one longs for more context and…

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By Kevin Thomas (1,201) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 30 Apr 2003

Kwietniowski might have tried for some edginess that would express a measure of the excitement Mahowny is experiencing…

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By John Powers (147) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 30 Apr 2003

Atlantic City casino boss played with pointedly corrupt amusement by John Hurt, doesn't merely oversee hell but gets a real kick out of the damned…

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By Mark Athitakis (24) for Filmcritic.com (3,164) on 30 Apr 2003

It's clear halfway through Owning Mahowny that nobody with a need so consuming - and suits so ill-fitting - is going to come within 50 miles…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 29 Apr 2003

Hoffman plays Dan Mahowny's addiction to instant money as something dirty and private and, at the same time, soul-quickening…

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By Arthur Lazere (236) for culturevulture.net (793) on 27 Apr 2003

It's Hoffman's character study that centers the film..., but failing any real interest in the investigative side of the story, it does tend…

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By Jules Brenner (885) for Cinema Signals (847) on 22 Apr 2003

The worst part of it is not losing his bets, it's that he has to pay off his debt before he can gamble again -- something like telling a bee…

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By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 09 Apr 2003

Who else could play the role of a guy both nasty and vulnerable like Philip Seymour Hoffman…

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By Rex Roberts (125) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 06 Apr 2003

Entertaining and occasionally unsettling, but we never get under the skin of the protagonist, never learn what drives his addiction…

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