Yonkers Joe

movie was good chaz palminteri was awsome had a good story but if you dont understand the world of gambling could be hard for you to follow.... Full review

movie was good chaz palminteri was awsome had a good story but if you dont understand the world of gambling could be hard for you to follow.... Full review

I saw it on "On Demand"It was boring . We don't know why we sat through it.I didn't like anything about it.... Full review

I saw it on "On Demand"It was boring . We don't know why we sat through it.I didn't like anything about it.... Full review

His lack of performance is all the more glaring....Yonkers Joe (Chazz Palminteri) hasn't had the best of luck in the last few years..... ... Full Review

A direct descendant of Rain Man , Yonkers Joe once again unhappily marries the world of gambling to the exploitation of the developmentally disabled. The film takes place in the dingy, tacky world of Yonkers Joe (a well cast Chazz Palminteri, whose singular features manage to at once invoke both an infant and a vampire bat), a low-level grifter who earns a modest living through sleight of hand and loaded dice. ... Full Review

that provides some interesting moments but ultimately fails to gel.....Yonkers Joe" is incoherent, succeeding neither as an exciting gambling ride....Yonkers Joe," improbably, through strong actors, built up some steam....It's an odd pairing of cinematic cliches -.... ... Full Review

Otherwise, Yonkers Joe is a fun, oddly sweet movie. By Joel Keller (original publication date: 5/2/08 -- Tribeca Film Festival) Something about Yonkers Joe bugged me. ... Full Review

AN extremely awkward cross between "Ocean's Eleven" and "Rain Man," Robert Celestino's "Yonkers Joe" is a mawkish tale of a crooked gambler who has a 17-year-old son with Down syndrome. Chazz Palminteri is quite good as the old-school cardsharp, as is Christine Lahti playing his long-suffering girlfriend. ... Full Review

"Yonkers Joe" is a seedy, indie variation on "Ocean's Eleven." The title character is a small-time con man (Chazz Palminteri) who ekes out a living using loaded dice and card tricks to scam amateur players at beef-and-beers and Lion's Club... ... Full Article

Before "Yonkers Joe," Chazz Palminteri was just a paper cutout of a mobster cliche. He was a good cutout, an Oscar-nominated cutout, even, but every time out you knew exactly what you'd get from the one-note character actor. ... Full Article

"Yonkers Joe." That's what a moviegoer whispered as she zipped past one night during the Starz Denver Film Festival. She said it like she was giving the skinny to Benjamin Braddock in "The Graduate." ... Full Article

The world of "Yonkers Joe" is populated by shady gamblers, or "mechanics," who separate marks from their money with seamless sleight of hand. Writer-director Robert Celestino's father -- the real Yonkers Joe -- taught him some "moves" when the future... ... Full Article

Hey, what do you know, it's already the second weekend of 2009! Only 50 to go before 2010! Most independent-film distributors took a break the last couple weeks (as did most of mainstream Hollywood), but they're getting back into the... ... Full Article

"Yonkers Joe" offers more information than you probably ever wanted to know about crooked small-time gamblers and the sophisticated surveillance techniques employed by casinos to detect them. ... Full Article