A powerful story that has resonance on several levels… clear-cut and compelling… enough to alter your perspective of the city forever
SCREEN DAILY
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Naderi reveals the consuming obsessiveness of addiction
TIME

Naderi’s flair for depicting addiction, and his uncanny ability to weave that addiction through very specific topographies, amount to a highly poetic formalism… Never merely “realistic,” Naderi’s characters’ driving obsessions traverse cinematic synapses on America’s psychological landscape.
VARIETY

A pointed moral tale…The cinematography, as in all Naderi films, is calculated to the inch and highly expressive in its spareness, while wind chimes creating a sense of evil foreboding.
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

Naderi has made a film under similar conditions to those the film talks about. An ex-gambler and his wife, both proletarians from Nevada’s huge capital city, are victims of a scam – they’ve been led to believe that a haul from a legendary robbery gone awry is buried in the yard of their dear little home….Naderi frames the object at length. For everyone concerned, it is all a gamble, and all pure hazard.
CAHIERS DU CINEMA

A riveting study of gambling, addiction and obsession
FIPRESCI

A family on the periphery of Las Vegas, struggling with gambling addiction and their marginalized life…an allegory of futile obsession and greed
SIGNIS

Amir Naderi is perhaps the best unknown filmmaker in the world
THE WASHINGTON POST