Jerry and Marge Go Large Review: Happy, Sappy Cheese Lacks Stakes

It's kind of odd that almost every movie about gambling is actually pretty good, if not great. Owning Mahoney, Hard Eight, Croupier, Maverick, Casino, California Split, The Card Counter, The Cooler, Atlantic City, Mississippi Grind, The Cincinatti Kid, The Sting, The Hustler, The Color of Money, and Rounders, maybe the best poker movie of them all, are actually great pictures, the lot of them. Even those films tangentially related to gambling, such as Rain Main, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, and House of Cards, garner excellence as if by proximity to the subject.

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