Rotten
Auds will feel info-glut over the course of the two-hour-plus film, which is hardly the desirable response for a piece of reporting on the vital issue of the corrupting effect of money in American politics.
Robert Koehler, Variety
Casino Jack and the United States of Money
Come See Where Your Democracy Went
2010 · 1h 58m · R
Documentary
Directed by
Alex Gibney
Overview
A probing investigation into the lies, greed and corruption surrounding D.C. super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his cronies.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
83%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The narrative trots all over the globe, including stops for labor exploitation in the Marianas Islands, dealings with Russian mobsters,ripping off Indian tribes in the desert southwest, and jetting to Scotland to golf with impressionable politicians.
Ian Buckwalter, NPR
Fresh
That the film is overlong ultimately testifies to its importance, though after a while, the outrageous details start to run together like surreal satire. Except, of course, that it's all true.
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News
Fresh
Abramoff documentary is appalling, entertaining
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic
Fresh
Gibney is a busy boy, and he draws the lines between Abramoff and his friends -- and his friends' friends -- with the documentary equivalent of a highlighter.
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
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