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Dumb Money

2023

Craig Gillespie

Paul Dano, Pete Davidson, Shailene Woodley, Seth Rogen ...

6.2

2,932

Comedy. Drama Based on the crazy true story of ordinary people who took on Wall Street and made money by turning the declining GameStop (a mall video game store) into a very attractive company for novice investors. In the middle of it all was Keith Gill, a regular guy, analyst and amateur youtuber who bet it all by investing his life savings in Gamestop stock, and posting online about those investments on a famous reddit forum. When his comments on ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter	"It’s a compelling story told in largely engaging fashion, anchored by Dano’s terrific turn as the eccentric, strong-willed Gill"
		Owen Gleiberman Variety	"A smart, light-fingered, brashly entertaining finance-world docudrama"
		Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"It’s worth investing your time in subversively funny take on GameStop stock saga (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Johnny Oleksinski New York Post	"Two hours of drudgery and rattled-off money lingo (...) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"
		Caryn James BBC	"Funny, irreverent and crowd-pleasing (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Richard Lawson Vanity Fair	"A sturdy entry into the developing canon of docufiction that seeks to be lively and lucid and informative about the rotten state of the American dream"
		Michael O'Sullivan The Washington Post	"[It] is pretty funny. It’s just not terribly smart (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"
		Benjamin Lee The Guardian	"It's a rare film about digital culture that feels well-modulated, as accessible for those within it as it is for those blissfully unaware (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Alison Willmore Vulture	"The pleasant surprise of 'Dumb Money' is that it's such an effective entertainment, even if it oversells the revolutionary impact of what it's depicting"
		Brittany Witherspoon Screen Rant	"A crowd-pleasing story with great performances and a script that keeps it simple (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"
		Nick Schager The Daily Beast	"[It] tries to put a 'Big Short' spin on the GameStop stock market saga, but misses the mark"
		David Fear Rolling Stone	"They're just laying out what happened, why it happened, and why it mattered in the most audience-friendly manner imaginable, then take the whole thing to the moon"
		Barry Levitt SlashFilm	"Right now the impact feels like ripples, but perhaps 10 or 20 years from now, it could be waves"
		Ross Bonaime Collider	"A smart look at a bonkers moment in Wall Street history"
		Pete Hammond Deadline	"Hilarious and smart movie on the GameStop Stock phenomenon"
		Manuel Betancourt AV Club	"Smart, playful, and perhaps efficient to a fault, Gillespie’s latest is an enraging David vs. Goliath, ripped-from-the-headlines tale that deserves to be seen to be believed"
		Robert Abele Los Angeles Times	"It wants us to believe a revolution was afoot , but it’s too low-key to truly convince us (...) But in its thumbnail sketches simmering with risk, humor, and melancholy (...) it entertainingly takes stock"
		Natalia Winkelman IndieWire	"Craig Gillespie’s rousing GameStop comedy (...) An ensemble cast led by Paul Dano shines"
		Siddhant Adlakha Mashable	"It's bolstered by entertaining performances that, at least sometimes, make up for its numerous shortcomings elsewhere and ensure that it's never boring, even when it tends to be slight"
		Martin Tsai The Wrap	"'Dumb Money' has emerged as the first definitive portrait of the COVID era"
		Mark Hanson Slant	"The film only pretends to rail against the scourge of unchecked capitalism (...) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"
		John Serba Decider	"[It] is indeed ready to entertain us"

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