The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976) - Movie Reviews - Page 2 of 9

21-40 of 168 Reviews

Sort by:

Review of The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)

By Richard Brody (868) for New Yorker (1,403) on 02 May 2013

Cassavetes captures the gambler’s fatalistic joy in playing out a tragedy of his own making to the bitter end, and, revelling in the romantic…

Read Review

Review of The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)

By Pierluigi P (335) on 13 Apr 2013

An offbeat but unique take on the noir genre keys that might seem to go nowhere most of the time and yet brings some freshness and bravado…

Read Review

Review of The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)

By Stephen E (810) on 12 Apr 2013

John Cassavetes' gritty arthouse neo-noir is one of those films that you can immediately tell has influenced an entire generation of filmmakers…

Read Review

Review of The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)

By Filmgrinder S (1,010) on 13 Jan 2013

88% People who owe money, sshhh, that's the worst sin in the world. Here's to the biggest sin in the world, people who owe money.-Flo (Timothy Carey)…

Read Review

Review of The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)

By Dan C (729) on 11 Nov 2012

Not a movie, but a film, a piece of art, rather than an entertainment, which apparently gives license to bore the viewer…

Read Review

Review of The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)

By Daryl K (209) on 10 Nov 2012

A slow, dialog-heavy set-up gives 'The Killing of a Chinese Bookie' the feeling that it's building towards something…

Read Review

Review of The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)

By Mohamed E (38) on 26 Oct 2012

…

Read Review

Review of The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)

By Brett M (321) on 23 Aug 2012

Now I saw the original lost 76 cut off the criterion collection. It's realism at the most good and cool…

Read Review

Review of The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)

By Tony A (95) on 24 Apr 2012

Grim as it gets. I was interested for a while but so much time is void of anything but the grimness you just can't be bothered by the end…

Read Review

Review of The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)

By Rick P (221) on 25 Mar 2012

Perhaps the greatest, most accurate delineation of masculinity and how paralyzing it can be…

Read Review

Review of The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)

By Holly R (220) on 18 Mar 2012

I'm such a Cassavetes fan, I'm not sure how I hadn't seen this one yet... In any event, it's great, of course…

Read Review

Review of The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)

By Sean G (809) on 08 Mar 2012

I am amazing. It's basically neo-noir meets the gangster genre…

Read Review

Review of The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)

By Benjamin W (694) on 03 Mar 2012

A film with no score, way too many close-ups, and hardly enough lighting to see what's going on ends up being a very awkward film to watch…

Read Review

Review of The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)

By Jens T (504) on 01 Sep 2011

So smooth and stylish, Cassavetes makes this movie look so good and makes directing look easy…

Read Review

Review of The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)

By Peter F (998) on 22 Jul 2011

After several successful flirts with melodrama, Cassavetes made his first attempt at L.A.-based noir and it's quite a treat…

Read Review

Review of The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)

By Masorad ( (274) on 18 Jul 2011

Cassavetes does a character study, then playfully deconstructs the idea of character in an off-hand backstage confab…

Read Review

Review of The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)

By Senor C (647) on 04 May 2011

This is one of the best films I've ever seen…

Read Review

Review of The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)

By John C (2,737) on 26 Mar 2011

The original 1976 version is a low key masterpiece, a wonderful character drama about a loser with a dream…

Read Review

Review of The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)

By Harim K (87) on 28 Feb 2011

Stark and warm at the same time... he may be dumb but he's no fool…

Read Review

Review of The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)

By Tiziano H (7) on 10 Feb 2011

The 1978 directors cut at 108 minutes is the version to see…

Read Review

Page 2 of 9

More reviews of this movie:

Perhaps you were looking for:

Chinese Boxes (1984)

Ben Gazzara - Top 5 movies:

Morgan Woodward - Top 5 movies:

Seymour Cassel - Top 5 movies:

Movies you might like:

Chinatown

1974

86%854 Reviews

The Big Sleep

1946

80%572 Reviews

The Bodyguard

1992

60%523 Reviews

The Thirteenth Floor

1999

53%396 Reviews

Mulholland Drive

2001

80%872 Reviews

Danny Collins

2015

66%397 Reviews

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

1988

81%781 Reviews

Playing by Heart

1998

71%399 Reviews

The Usual Suspects

1995

85%880 Reviews

Dirty Harry

1971

82%707 Reviews

Point Break

2015

53%736 Reviews

Se7en

1995

83%872 Reviews

Popular Movies Right Now

Where the Crawdads Sing

2022

63%92 Reviews

Hillbilly Elegy

2020

61%141 Reviews

The Judge

2014

67%866 Reviews

Dark Waters

2019

76%68 Reviews

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

2023

79%186 Reviews

Midsommar

2019

69%207 Reviews

Terrifier 2

2022

65%48 Reviews

The Batman

2022

75%430 Reviews

Past Lives

2023

84%62 Reviews

Top Gun: Maverick

2022

82%272 Reviews

Movies You Viewed Recently

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie

1976

73%168 Reviews

Audrey Rose

1977

52%72 Reviews

Narc

2002

72%554 Reviews

4 Little Girls

1997

79%95 Reviews

Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story

2017

78%31 Reviews

Being John Malkovich

1999

83%844 Reviews

Alien Outpost

2014

41%47 Reviews

Choose Connor

2007

53%16 Reviews

Against the Ropes

2004

36%161 Reviews

The Minus Man

1999

46%103 Reviews