Anyone mentioning the name Hitchcock in association with Reindeer Games should be flogged for blasphemy. — James Berardinelli

Perhaps the movie was originally intended to open at Christmas. That would explain the title, and the sequence where the casino, which looks like a former Target store, is stuck up by five Santas. But nothing can explain the upbeat final scene, in which, after blood seeps into the Michigan snow, we get a fit of Robin Hood sentimentality. The moment to improve Reindeer Games was at the screenplay stage, by choosing another one. — Roger Ebert