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A retired pool hustler is forced to pick up the stick again when his brother starts a game he can't finish.
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75
Chicago Sun-Times
One of the things I like best about Poolhall Junkies is its lack of grim desperation.
60
Brassy and energetic, first-time director Mars Callahan's vividly photographed ode to the seductive allure of professional sharking succeeds in making the game seem genuinely kinetic and thrilling.
60
Variety
Callahan mostly overcomes its grungy technical quality with entertaining dialogue, nervy confrontation scenes, decent thesping and some truly spectacular shooting on the green velvet.
50
For all his skill with a cue, the charisma-challenged Callahan is no Nia Vardalos in the acting department -- let alone a Paul Newman or Tom Cruise.
40
It isn't that nothing happens in Poolhall Junkies, it's that nothing interesting does.
