Read the Variety review
The grifter movie, having had several makeovers in recent years, reaches a level of unprecedented enjoyment and excitement in "Seven Times Lucky," an absolute knockout of a feature debut by writer-director G.B. Yates. It isn't just that Yates' yarn is suitably intricate, or that the filmmaking package is superbly crafted in every department, but that a full cinematic vision is created with a wonderful set of characters resonating long after the closing credits. Read more here...

Read the Sundance Film Festival review
Seven Times Lucky Director/Screenwriter: Gary B. Yates There is an original. bittersweet spin happening to the con-game genre in Seven Times Lucky. a tour-de-doublecross from Canadian writer/director Gary Yates starring the talented everyman Kevin Pollak. and the Cheshire cat smile of Liane Balaban. Read the review here...

Read the Montreal Gazette review
Seven Times Lucky is a $2-million dollar movie that looks like a billion bucks. This remarkably poised, pretzel-logic riff on the who's-ripping-off-whom? sub-basement grifter genre is a first feature shot in Winnipeg in winter by a Pierrefonds native named Gary Yates. It stars American Kevin Pollak and Canadians Liane Balaban, Jonas Chernick and James Tolkan as small-time con artists. Everyone in this movie is scamming everybody else. But nobody scams like Yates's script scams its audience. We will reveal nothing here except to say this is the tightest, smartest, most devious, doublecrossing-est narrative to emerge from the middle of nowhere - Winnipeg-in a very long time. Read more here...

Read the Toronto Film Festival review
Harlan (Kevin Pollak). the hero of Gary Yates's sly, smart and seriously entertaining first feature Seven Times Lucky, is the last in a line of scammers, hustlers and black market bottom-feeders. He's a bag man for Eddie (Babz Chula). one of Winnipeg's most prominent fences, and also runs his own sketchy crew including punkish pickpocket Fiona (Liane Balaban) and Sonny (Jonas Chernick). a local dimwit Harlan keeps around primarily out of pity. Read the article here...