Leaving Las Vegas Critic Reviews

Cage and Shue make these cliches into unforgettable people.Read the full review

The film pulls no punches, takes no prisoners and flies in the face of feel-good pictures.Read the full review

Dark and giddy at the same time, Leaving Las Vegas takes us into dreamy, intoxicated places that no movie about an alcoholic has gone before.Read the full review

A uniquely hypnotic and haunting love story sparked by Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue at their career best.Read the full review

Mr. Cage digs deep to find his character's inner demons while also capturing the riotous energy of his outward charm. [27 October 1995, p. C3]Read the full review

Draws its audience along a rarely-traveled path whose scope can only be fully appreciated in the silence of the aftermath.Read the full review

Doesn't go down smooth, but it doesn't promise to.Read the full review

What keeps the film (adapted from the late John O'Brien's harrowing semi-autobiographical book) from being completely unbearable are the extraordinary performances.Read the full review

Deliberately downbeat, it's best as a two-person character study, stumbling a bit whenever it extends its parameters.Read the full review