77
Metascore
14 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 91The PlaylistThe PlaylistThe film doesn’t feel like a fiction. Instead, it plays like one of those great stories you hear late night over beers, and marvel, thinking, “That’s so wild it can’t be true… But I hope it its.”
- 90VarietyAndrew BarkerVarietyAndrew BarkerFunny, warm, and broken-in in all the right ways, Win It All marries Swanberg’s loping, observational style with a plot that wouldn’t have been out of place in an old-school Warner Bros. melodrama, and ends up dealing a surprisingly strong hand.
- 88Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperChicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperWin It All is just the latest stellar collaboration between Swanberg and Johnson.... This is their most conventional film in terms of story arc, but it still has a nifty, indie-without-trying-to-be-hipster feel.
- 83ConsequenceMichael RoffmanConsequenceMichael RoffmanThis isn’t about the inner mechanics of the game, and it’s not even strictly a film about gambling, per se. It’s a dense character study that rests on the shoulders of Johnson, who delivers his strongest performance to date, casually handling every scene with a magnetism that recalls the likes of ’70s era De Niro or even the aforementioned Caan.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeSuffice it to say that what satisfies on one level raises questions on others, and that certain plot points mightn't play as well without someone as charismatic as Johnson putting them across.
- 80The New YorkerRichard BrodyThe New YorkerRichard BrodyWith a teeming cast of vibrantly unglamorous Chicago characters who hold Eddie in a tight social web, Swanberg—aided greatly by Johnson’s vigorous performance—makes the gambler’s panic-stricken silence all the more agonizing, balancing the warm veneer of intimate normalcy with the inner chill of secrets and lies.
- 75Slant MagazineChuck BowenSlant MagazineChuck BowenThere's an artisanal scruffiness to Win It All that testifies to Joe Swanberg’s quiet fluidity as a filmmaker.
- 70ScreenCrushBritt HayesScreenCrushBritt HayesWin It All is appropriately unfussy, letting the characters and performances speak for themselves. Johnson takes a played-out character type and transforms him into someone who is actually endearing and likable.
- 67The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloThe A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloThere’s enough disreputable behavior bookending the righteousness, and enough solid jokes along the way, to make the effort moderately entertaining.