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| POOLHALL JUNKIES (2001) - R
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ReviewScore: 36 out of 100
SBD Star Rating:
by Lew Irwin
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 The indie film Poolhall Junkies is being treated as not-so-serious junk by the critics. "The first funny-awful movie of 2003," is the way Jan Stuart in Newsday describes it. "A grind to sit through," is Jack Mathews' description in the New York Daily News. Robert K. Elder in the Chicago Tribune dismisses it as 90 "minutes of timeworn plot conceits and subpar dialogue." Comments Manohla Dargis in the Los Angeles Times: "It isn't that nothing happens in Poolhall Junkies, it's that nothing interesting does." Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times closes his review with a summarizing series of questions and answers: "Is this a great movie? Not at all. Is it more or less consistently entertaining? Yes. Do Walken and Palminteri do things casually that most actors could not do at all? Yes. Did I feel afterward as if I had been dragged through the blood and grime of the mean streets? No, but I felt like I had a good time at the movies." |
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