Though the film is over before it ever gets going, the good-looking cast doesn’t make the substance-free story worth enduring.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 22, 2022

The slickest piece of garbage you'll see all year.

Full Review | Original Score: D+ | Sep 17, 2021

Devoid of the flair of excelling in anything specific.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10 | Dec 4, 2020

Runner Runner is a slick, daft and unabashedly entertaining Hollywood thriller. It doesn't do anything new with the formula, but it knows how to engineer it in the correct way.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 5, 2019

Runner Runner looks great and has the virtue of moving quickly under Brian Furman's direction, but it plays like a big-budget but otherwise average episode of a TV show about slightly shady people trying to bring down really shady people.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Jan 25, 2019

While the script seems very concerned with the formula, it glosses over the details. Everything in the film happens very easily, from losing money to getting close to the highly-protected Block to organizing a counter plan.

Full Review | Oct 26, 2018

No matter how good all this looks, there's not enough tension to keep us on our toes and not enough depth of character to make us care how it all plays out.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 8, 2017

The leads, including a demeaned Gemma Arterton, are sparkling high-rollers but no one really emerges a winner from this forgettable low-risk, low-stakes drama.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 6, 2017

There may have been a good movie somewhere in Runner Runner but it's not even in sight as it stands nows.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Jun 22, 2016

The story is so inconsequential that the best performances in the world would hardly make a dent in its snooze-worthy screenplay.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 17, 2016

Ultimately, Runner Runner is really just a movie designed to provide some background noise as you update your Facebook.

Full Review | Feb 28, 2014

Mixes the vacuous and tedious, slick and predictable, smarmy and smug. There's gambling lingo, racism or sleaziness spouting from the mouths of male a**holes, conversations steaming with banal bluster, and tropical scenes out of perfume and liqueur ads.

Full Review | Dec 27, 2013

A bland retelling of a familiar story that lies in the shadow of smarter and sleeker films like 'The Firm.'

Full Review | Original Score: 1.0/5 | Dec 24, 2013

...it's ultimately impossible to downplay the rampant ineffectiveness of virtually every aspect of the proceedings.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Nov 13, 2013

Its pedigree may seem like a trump card, but make no mistake -- Runner Runner is bluffing.

Full Review | Original Score: 5.5/10 | Oct 31, 2013

Five years from now, I can see this movie constantly slotted on networks like USA and TNT to fill the programming gaps.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 30, 2013

Justin Timberlake can not carry a movie on his own and this one sinks under his efforts. Still the plot of the movie is pretty much run of the mill in its own right

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10 | Oct 22, 2013

There's nothing glaringly wrong with it, but it's so glossily mediocre that it's impossible to recommend to anyone not contemplating a lengthy plane journey.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 17, 2013

Stars Justin Timberlake, the perfect vanilla pseudoadult for a story of pseudoadult intrigues and pleasures.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/10 | Oct 14, 2013

Runner Runner gives both [Justin Timberlake and Ben Affleck] room to show what they can do, and rather than pump up the volume, they play it close to the vest, as good gamblers would.

Full Review | Oct 14, 2013