Jackpot (2001) Critic Reviews
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It's a movie full of quietly assured flourishes: elegant camera compositions, wonderful uses of silence and an entertainingly eclectic cast, including Peggy Lipton as a sensitive bartender.Read the full review
Bummer theater.Read the full review
It's as self consciously arty and fragmented as ''Twin Falls'' was controlled and organically built.Read the full review
The filmmakers throw in an extended flatulence routine and enough graphic references to female anatomy to make "The Vagina Monologues" blush.Read the full review
In its mastery of its moments, Jackpot has charm, humor and poignancy. What it lacks is necessity. There's a sense in which we're always waiting for it to kick in.Read the full review
Essentially a one-gag film.Read the full review
The movie is smart in small ways, yet an underachiever in big ones -- but it will probably play very well on television. On the big screen, it's distended and diffuse.Read the full review
A candidate for quiet cult status.Read the full review
Jackpot has much that is sweet and funny, but it is not overly original--and it is overly long and not as coherent as it might be.Read the full review
Nobody hits the jackpot here, certainly not filmmakers Michael and Mark Polish, whose audacious, empathic first film, "Twin Falls Idaho," showed such promise.Read the full review
