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

Pleasing twists and moral dilemmas abound.

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

Really, it could use some nip/tuck on the screenplay, but the players are decent and the movie looks opulent enough.

| Apr 13, 2016

We are persuaded to root for Miller, even when he is betraying the people he loves best. You'll feel dirty, and well you should after a few hours in this company.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 1, 2013

Arbitrage is a slick, intelligent psychological thriller that works to connect public and private immorality.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 1, 2013

An old-fashioned treat.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 28, 2013

Gere is matchless in this kind of role. The lacquered crinkle of the smile; the corrugated silk hair; the eyes deep-pouched and glinting like coins in a rich man's wallet.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 28, 2013

What elegant pulp this is, and how inelegantly I gobbled it up.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 28, 2013

Like Gere's Machiavellian tycoon, Arbitrage's flaws only start to appear under close scrutiny.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 28, 2013

There are holes in the plot, to be sure, but somehow we don't mind, because for all the unbearable tension of Jarecki's script, the central attraction here is the man in the arena.

| Jan 8, 2013

A tight thriller that shows [its] handsome star in fine form as a morally bankrupt financier playing fast and loose with ethics and the law.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 28, 2012

Gere gets the role he has been suiting up for ever since he was first designer-dressed for a murder rap in American Gigolo.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 28, 2012

Part thriller, part character study, and it moves swiftly and confidently, with many details that feel exactly right.

Full Review | Sep 24, 2012

This isn't very effective as a thriller, though it's a provocative fable about our ambivalent feelings toward financial elites.

| Sep 21, 2012

Gere's very good at making Robert's compromises seem more human than horrid. He portrays the philanthropic, philandering patriarch with his customary twinkle.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 14, 2012

Straddling the line between celebration and vilification of its nasty protagonist, Arbitrage plunges into the world of corporate fraud with chilly detachment.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Sep 14, 2012

The real standout is Tim Roth as a streetwise New York City detective who's seen it all and can spot a liar a mile away.

| Original Score: 2.00 | Sep 14, 2012

"Arbitrage" becomes far more complex than just dramatized anti-corporate polemic, or even a simple fall from grace.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 14, 2012

I'm not sure any five pages of this script by director Nicholas Jarecki hold together.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 14, 2012

Mediocre at best.

| Original Score: C- | Sep 14, 2012