Leaving Las Vegas 1995

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: A film laden with virtues but difficult to embrace. Read more

Janet Maslin, New York Times: Small, searing film. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: The plot goes nowhere, but under the pornographic circumstances Figgis, Cage, and Shue all do fine jobs. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Dark and giddy at the same time, Leaving Las Vegas takes us into dreamy, intoxicated places no movie about an alcoholic has gone before. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Nicolas Cage, who has a track record of immersing himself in parts, gives one of the year's most powerful acting turns. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Cage, a resourceful and daring actor, has never been better. Read more

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: A uniquely hypnotic and haunting love story sparked by Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue at their career best. Read more

Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine: We're not talking high, morally instructive tragedy here, just a hard lesson in postmodernist outlawry and its sad little anarchies. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: It certainly has the courage of its convictions. Read more

Leonard Klady, Variety: The film pulls no punches, takes no prisoners and flies in the face of feel-good pictures. Read more