Matt Damon's 1998 movie is "almost unanimously the best poker movie ever made," according to expert Darren Elias, who has to nitpick the issues.

One such case is the 1998 Matt Damon-led film Rounders, which explores the world of poker. Some could argue that Rounders shouldn't qualify as a sports movie because poker itself isn't really a sport.

John Dahl directed this exploration of New York private clubs devoted to high-stakes poker, with first-person narration from the film's central figure, law student Mike McDermott (Matt Damon), who ...