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Podcast: Have a Good Movie
Episode: DECADES GRAB BAG: The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
Description: CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of gambling.
One would think that with the steely blue eyes of Steve McQueen and the highest-stakes poker game ever concocted, we'd be cooking with fire with this next film. Instead, we get one of the most boring 100-minute movies committed to celluloid. Nearly an hour of this movie is preamble and exposition and when we finally get to the poker game we might as well have just had the Kid lose in the first few hands. There are many ways to approach a good poker movie, and this movie chooses literally...