Jackpot
Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: July 27, 2001 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
49
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 24 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
12
Negative:
5

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
88
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
Filled with bleak, beautiful Hopperesque tableaus and strange characters whose lives intersect. Read full review
80
Washington PostDesson Thomson
It's a movie full of quietly assured flourishes: elegant camera compositions, wonderful uses of silence and an entertainingly eclectic cast, including Peggy Lipton as a sensitive bartender. Read full review
78
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
Its doomed portrait of guileless dreamers may be found lacking in plot activity and empathetic characters. But for anyone interested in a movie that wipes clean the grungy patina of self-delusionment, Jackpot hits solid pay dirt. Read full review
75
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
Gries and Morris act up a storm as the optimistically named Sunny Holiday and his long-suffering manager. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
The acting is primo and the cinematography, on high-definition video by the gifted M. David Mullen, is striking.
70
Chicago ReaderLisa Alspector
Potential irony is everywhere in this movie's subtly surreal situations and candy-colored imagery. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeJay Carr
Bummer theater. Read full review
60
Mr. ShowbizKevin Maynard
The more we realize that we're stuck in the company of a totally relentless loser, the drearier the entire experience becomes.
58
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
It's as self consciously arty and fragmented as ''Twin Falls'' was controlled and organically built. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
In its mastery of its moments, Jackpot has charm, humor and poignancy. What it lacks is necessity. There's a sense in which we're always waiting for it to kick in. Read full review
50
USA TodayClaudia Plig
Essentially a one-gag film. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldConnie Ogle
Jackpot ends up a lot like Sunny's singing: pointless and more than a little flat. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleCarla Meyer
The filmmakers throw in an extended flatulence routine and enough graphic references to female anatomy to make "The Vagina Monologues" blush. Read full review
50
New York PostLou Lumenick
Barely enough chuckles to keep from running out of gas. Yet it's the sharpest-looking movie shot so far on digital video, outdistancing even "The Anniversary Party." Read full review
40
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
This dogged journey of self-delusion is interrupted periodically by snippets of footage...that promise a dark revelation that would give an edge to the otherwise tedious goings-on but, sadly, never materializes. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
Jackpot has much that is sweet and funny, but it is not overly original--and it is overly long and not as coherent as it might be. Read full review
40
New Times (L.A.)Luke Y. Thompson
Where "Twin Falls" was slow, brooding and haunting in a manner that fit the subject matter -- the imminent death of one of the principal characters -- Jackpot is just slow and uneventful, like a cross-country Greyhound bus trip that never stops. Read full review
40
VarietyKen Eisner
A candidate for quiet cult status. Read full review
40
The New York TimesA.O. Scott
The movie is smart in small ways, yet an underachiever in big ones -- but it will probably play very well on television. On the big screen, it's distended and diffuse. Read full review
38
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
Shows that there's a limit to how much mileage one can get from offbeat, creepy and symbiotic. Read full review
33
Portland OregonianBarry Johnson
A very depressing movie. Read full review
30
Village VoiceAmy Taubin
Michael and Mark Polish's debut feature, "Twin Falls, Idaho," was a cloying oddball love story involving adult male Siamese twins; their follow-up, Jackpot, is another piece of whimsical Americana. Read full review
30
L.A. WeeklyManohla Dargis
The mood is hermetic to the point of claustrophobia, embellished with a sense of everyday surrealism indebted to David Lynch. Read full review
30
Washington PostRita Kempley
Nobody hits the jackpot here, certainly not filmmakers Michael and Mark Polish, whose audacious, empathic first film, "Twin Falls Idaho," showed such promise. Read full review
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