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Owning Mahowny Review

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Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 4.0
    70

    out of 100

    Metascore®
    Generally favorable reviews
    based on a weighted average of all
    critic review scores.

  • 100

    out of 100

    Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

    There have been many good movies about gambling, but never one that so single-mindedly shows the gambler at his task.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    Variety David Rooney

    Philip Seymour Hoffman and John Hurt give compelling performances... But the coldly unrewarding drama is as distant and joyless as its protagonist, representing a disappointment for director Richard Kwietniowski.

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  • 60

    out of 100

    The New York Times A.O. Scott

    Whatever minor entertainment there is to be gleaned from Mahowny -- set in the early 1980's, mostly in Toronto -- comes in bits and pieces.

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  • 63

    out of 100

    USA Today Claudia Puig

    There are some effectively suspenseful moments in the movie, particularly during the gambling sequences, but one longs for more context and probing into the psyche of an ordinary man with an extraordinary compulsion.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas

    Kwietniowski might have tried for some edginess that would express a measure of the excitement Mahowny is experiencing. Despite the driven intensity of the banker, the film threatens to slip into the lifelessness of the drab world it depicts.

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  • 75

    out of 100

    Chicago Tribune Robert K. Elder

    Kwietniowski turns up the tension so incrementally, we don't realize the scope of Mahowny's moral wreck until it is too late.

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  • 91

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

    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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