*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. "Smokin' Aces" is pretty much what the advertisements promise - a wannabe Quentin Tarantino/Guy Ritchie-style saga of ...

One of the more reliable movie-viewing maxims is: beware of any picture that advertises more than a half-dozen “stars.” Those films are almost always a convoluted mess. Such is the case with “Smokin’ ...