Dead Money

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Dead Money

R

Released Sep 13, 2024

1h 40m

Mystery & Thriller

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A stolen bag of money forces a professional poker hustler to play the biggest game of his life to save himself and his girlfriend.

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Richard Roeper

Chicago Sun-Times

The sharp screenplay by Josh Wilcox nails the poker lexicon yet never gets so deep in the weeds that the non-player would be lost.

Rated: 3/4

Sep 18, 2024

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Peter Sobczynski

RogerEbert.com

It isn’t necessarily a bad movie, just a mediocre one that only reminds you of all the better films it aspires to be like.

Rated: 2/4

Sep 13, 2024

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JK Sooja

Common Sense Media

Andy is appropriately moody and serious as a whip-smart high-stakes poker player, but his character quickly gets overshadowed by all the violence and stagey plot devices.

Oct 3, 2024

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Joel Copling

Spectrum Culture

Dead Money relies far too much on the idea that some of these characters are smarter than others, only to do any intelligence a disservice by playing this silly game with its audience.

Sep 18, 2024

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Rich Cline

Shadows on the Wall

Director Luc Walpoth plays on genre cliches to build some slick, edgy tension. But the meandering plot and fuzzy point of view make it difficult to stay involved.

Rated: 2.5/5

Sep 17, 2024

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Jennie Kermode

Eye for Film

Walpoth knows how to handle action, and there’s plenty of it here, up close and messy, characters improvising in ways that tend to test stunt teams much more than smooth martial arts moves.

Rated: 3/5

Sep 16, 2024

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Jeffrey P

Never goes deep enough into the card playing or what is transpiring around it, and fails to really fit the two stories together in an original and intelligent way.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

03/20/25

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A.L.Jude P

Why so underrated when the plot was unique, cast made it the max and everything seemed much excellence ?

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/14/25

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John K

Some quirky characters and some action, yet feels kind of jumbled. There have been so many poker movies in recent years and this feels like a jumbled mess of all of them.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

03/09/25

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Audience Member

First great movie I have seen in a while. The critics have no clue what they are talking about. Smug as usual. It had like-able characters, comedy, action, suspense. It was a fun watch!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/02/25

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RaiderRo D

A guy movie and it was entertaining. Don’t know why these movies get trashed, it’s better than 85% of the trash out there

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/01/25

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Alex W

Fun with cards and guns.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/01/25

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Synopsis

A stolen bag of money forces a professional poker hustler to play the biggest game of his life to save himself and his girlfriend.

Director: Luc Walpoth
Producer: Sara Sometti Michaels, Seth Michaels
Screenwriter: Josh Wilcox
Distributor: Samuel Goldwyn Films
Production Co: Benacus Entertainment, RNF Productions
Rating: R (Language Throughout|Violence/Bloody Images)
Genre: Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 13, 2024, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 13, 2024
Runtime: 1h 40m

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