Without Richard Gere at the center, Jarecki’s film wouldn’t work so well.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 27, 2022

It offers timely questions and enough entertaining mystery to play off of our tough economic times.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 14, 2022

In many ways, Arbitrage is the awards contender it may have first appeared to be. It is deep and meaningful and one of the most intelligent movies of the year.

| Mar 11, 2021

Arbitrage is an ultimately timid work that has its heart half in the world it purports to disparage.

| Feb 28, 2021

Arbitrage is a mechanically sound and consistently entertaining film, with some noteworthy performances. However, after the film concludes, it's hard to find anything to be enthusiastic about it.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 8, 2019

Pointed but not polemical, [Nicholas] Jarecki's allegorical film moves along steadily, buoyed by an eerie and modern score, as it traces the fault lines of one man's delusions.

| Feb 26, 2019

Jarecki surprisingly manages to draw out a sense of sympathy for his protagonist.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 9, 2019

Arbitrage is unlikely to become a blockbuster, but it is clever, keeps us guessing and, in its credible depiction of the world of high finance, is more than a little chilling.

| Original Score: B | Jan 31, 2019

Studios rarely makes this type of film anymore; it's a solid thriller.

| Jan 26, 2019

his movie is a real treat, and even surprises with moments of genuine humor.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Dec 20, 2018

Arbitrage is packed with tension from start to finish.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 20, 2018

Gere is outstanding. He's always looked good in a suit and had the ability to promise the world with one look, but these talents don't compare to his talent to portray a self-centered jerk... This is Gere at his best.

| Oct 20, 2018

... even though Arbitrage winds up seeming awfully familiar, through Jimmy's deepening dilemma it offers insight into something rarely touched on in American cinema: what it's like to be used by the 1 percent.

| Sep 4, 2018

So slyly and craftily entertaining even though it probably doesn't bear close scrutiny, I didn't much care. It wasn't epic. It didn't ask me to ponder the meaning of life. And it's good.

| Sep 4, 2018

Underneath the surface is a hauntingly urgent requiem on the American Dream and the moral fabric of the country.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 26, 2018

As someone who is susceptible to melodrama, I enjoyed much of Arbitrage.

| Jan 9, 2018

Pleasing twists and moral dilemmas abound.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 5, 2017

Arbitrage is not about greed or frustration or police corruption. It's not about family bonds or loyalty or racial discrimination. But all those elements are incorporated into this multi-layered, suspense-laden film.

| Feb 3, 2017

Gere, who appears in nearly every scene of Arbitrage, turns in the best performance of his career, conveying with supreme skill and remarkable restraint the exquisite agony of Miller's desperation.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 12, 2016

Does the privilege of powerful men always lead to lust and lies? No. But the phrase 'Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely,' is well depicted in 'Arbitrage.'

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 28, 2016