Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Jun 25, 2005 2/5

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Stacie Hougland Hollywood.com Nov 14, 2003 1/4

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David Nusair Reel Film Reviews Jul 22, 2003 2/4

The Polish brothers are clearly talented; all they need now is a story that's more interesting than this one.

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Christopher Null Filmcritic.com Aug 1, 2002 3.5/5

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Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Jan 2, 2002 B-

The Polish brothers are onto something about their view of small-towns in the western part of America...

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Ted Murphy Baseline.Hollywood.com Dec 21, 2001 4/5

"Jackpot" is a downbeat but effective character study ...

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Robert W. Butler Kansas City Star Nov 2, 2001

Has its moments, but if we're meant to care about these losers, the film misses by a mile.

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Susan Stark Detroit News Oct 12, 2001 2/4

This is a comedy but the laughter it prompts is dark and parched.

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Terry Lawson Detroit Free Press Oct 12, 2001

Because there is no real chance Sunny will triumph -- Rocky this isn't -- we await the end with the same polite, mildly bemused vacancy with which we await the end of a serious karaoke performance, only without the benefit of alcohol.

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Jim Lane Sacramento News & Review Sep 24, 2001 2/5

The Polish brothers seem more intent on giving their film an artsy sheen than on making sense of the characters or their plight.

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Marjorie Baumgarten Austin Chronicle Sep 24, 2001 3.5/5

For anyone interested in a movie that wipes clean the grungy patina of self-delusionment, Jackpot hits solid pay dirt.

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Duane Dudek Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Sep 21, 2001

These appealing characters wear out their welcome at about the same time it becomes apparent they're going nowhere slowly and that the teasing promises made by the story's fractured sensibility will be modestly realized at best.

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Connie Ogle Miami Herald Sep 21, 2001

Ends up a lot like Sunny's singing: pointless and more than a little flat.

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Greg Muskewitz eFilmCritic.com Sep 17, 2001 3/5

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Elias Savada Nitrate Online Sep 8, 2001 2/4

Jackpot's song skips about the countryside never hitting full groove.

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Barry Johnson Oregonian Sep 7, 2001

Ultimately, Sunny is too hopeless to really care about.

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Maitland McDonagh TV Guide Aug 31, 2001 2/5

A disappointing tease of a movie, all low-rent glimmer and ominous hints of something awful that either happened or is going to happen.

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Karla Peterson San Diego Union-Tribune Aug 31, 2001

Being the kind of film that opts for visual flash over intellectual (or emotional) substance, Jackpot doesn't hold up for the long haul.

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Chris Hewitt St. Paul Pioneer Press Aug 30, 2001

Dominated by a protagonist so uninteresting that he overshadows everything.

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Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times Aug 24, 2001 2/4

There's a sense in which we're always waiting for it to kick in.

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