Amir Naderi's "Vegas: Based on a True Story" celebrated its premiere at the Venice Film Festival this week, and the first responses from attending critics aren't bad.

Fionnuala Halligan at Screen Daily:

"He does his actors no favours, although there are good performances here. Once – and if – the viewer gets past the film's deliberately ugly feel, there's a pretty powerful story in Vegas that has resonance on several levels."

"The cinematography, as in all Naderi films, is calculated to the inch and highly expressive in its spareness, while wind chimes creating a sense of evil foreboding."