99 Homes is worth seeing, especially for the urgent, raw work by both the actors and Bahrani, and for what it says about the American economy.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 12, 2016

99 Homes is very good at showing that the housing crisis is not a problem that belongs to one person.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 13, 2016

The rackets and scams it exposes are all real, the result of extensive research. It's a gripping thriller with good guys and bad guys, but everyone in it is a victim, including Rick Carver. Bahrani's achievement in this film is breathtaking.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Nov 19, 2015

Bahrani's most accomplished film to date.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 13, 2015

A simplistic but stirring morality play centered on the pressure point of the savings-and-loan crisis.

| Oct 8, 2015

[Garfield] the protege is the film's first weak point: his avowed decency - he loves his simple mom and moppety son! - is a flimsy thing, and its quick collapse leaves our hero both pathetic and despicable.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 8, 2015

"Inside Job" could almost be an alternative title for this gripping and timely drama, which makes none of the family's choices look easy.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 8, 2015

A gripping dramatic thriller about the winners and losers in America's game of mortgage roulette.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 8, 2015

Absorbing, entertaining drama with an on-target message...

| Oct 8, 2015

Bahrani's film asks a timely, yet timeless, question: How far would you go to save your home? Would you be wiling to lose yourself in the bargain?

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 8, 2015

I wish I could say 99 Homes delivers a shockingly good sucker punch to the American electorate and a stand-up-and-cheer piece of socially conscious filmmaking, but it's not.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 8, 2015

Michael Shannon and Andrew Garfield make for an incendiary combo, as a predatory realtor and his desperate protg.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 8, 2015

While Bahrani and his co-writers approach the subject matter with all the noisy subtlety of a bar brawl, the film rises above mere polemics thanks to charged performances from Andrew Garfield and especially Michael Shannon.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 8, 2015

Bahrani nails the predicament in which so many working-class folks now find themselves. Although they cling to the American dream, for many of them it has become a nightmare.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 8, 2015

99 Homes is a movie about how we live now, a thriller for grown-ups about everyday life and the social pecking order. Not for the faint of heart, mind you.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 7, 2015

Bahrani's latest film, "99 Homes," an examination of the crisis in bank foreclosures and repossessed homes in the guise of a thriller, is his best yet, largely because of a dynamite performance by co-star Michael Shannon ...

| Oct 2, 2015

Ramin Bahrani ("Goodbye Solo") has an extraordinary gift for making intimate dramas that do more than exemplify complex and murky issues; they illuminate them.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 1, 2015

It's still an easy recommendation, with director and co-writer Ramin Bahrani delivering a provocative, visceral, sometimes heartbreakingly relevant drama/thriller.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 1, 2015

99 Homes is both a peerless entertainment and a cri di coeur against a financial system that preyed on the weakest Americans.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 1, 2015

The movie works as a twinned character study, a moral suspense thriller, and an indictment of an America stacked against its working classes.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 1, 2015