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12/06/05
The Card Player (2004)
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Reviews Counted:11
Fresh:3
Rotten:8
Average Rating:4.5/10
Synopsis: From master horror director Dario Argento comes THE CARD PLAYER (IL CARTAIO). Stefania Rocca plays Anna Mari, a police detective whose birthday is ruined by a bizarre email she receives. In the... [More]
Starring: Stefania Rocca, Liam Cunningham, Fiore Argento, Claudio Santamaria
Director: Dario Argento
Reviews for The Card Player
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02/09/06
Argento, the once great king of giallo, goes down the drain - which is the only royal flush to be seen in this sub-par gambling thriller.
01/24/05
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08/16/07
Though it's based on a promisingly outrageous premise ... the film unfolds as a tired, thoroughly conventional police procedural that might as well be titled CSI: Roma.
10/06/04
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08/07/08
Top CriticArgento can't adapt thrills of digital entertainment to the thrills of cinema.
10/06/05
Watching the online cards turn slowly (sometimes painfully so) in the film is to be reminded of how good Argento used to be when his aesthetic approach was less synthetic.
07/19/04
Plutôt embarrassant.
11/25/05
An okay story, a tepid and convoluted plot, no logic and silly dialogue.
07/27/04
This oddly flat serial-killer picture shows none of the baroque flair that characterizes the best of Italian horror filmmaker Dario Argento's work.
10/08/04
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03/12/05
Fans of the cult helmer who expect the usual gore will be disappointed -- but there are compensations.
10/06/04
What most disappoints, then, is the film's aggressive ordinariness.
10/16/05
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