A movie that is completely hollow and only saved by Matthew McConaughey's committed performance.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Jun 24, 2022

It's a dark comedy, a satire of capitalism gone wrong, a critique of corporate greed, and a human drama about a loser who thought he finally made it big. And moreover, the film does none of these modes well.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 5, 2022

The maxim states that all that glitters is not gold, and that's certainly true. In the case of Gold, it's more like a shattered disco ball, promising dazzlement but delivering only a few fleeting glints of illumination.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 17, 2021

A potboiler on low simmer.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 28, 2021

This movie is one of the most incompetently made things I've seen in theaters for a long while, and though moments of it may make you smile, you aren't going to care enough to be invested.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 23, 2020

Gaghan's Gold relies too heavily on McConaughey's talents and personality to push forward its flaccid narrative.

| Aug 17, 2020

[Matthew McConaughey's] scenes in the jungle with dashing geologist Edgar Ramírez are much duller than those in the movie's latter half.

| Mar 26, 2020

Gold is worth its weight in gold thanks to outstanding performances by Matthew McConaughey and Edgar Ramirez.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 30, 2019

Gold is a good entertainment for adults, with an increasingly rare scale for independent works that are not blockbusters and therefore deserve, at least, an opportunity. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 16, 2019

Gold falters not only due to the oversaturation of its premise but also from heavy-handed pacing, dull characters.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 20, 2019

Even balding and paunchy, McConaughey's latest charming rogue is more than enough to keep audiences riveted through Gold's patchy rhythm.

| Mar 20, 2019

It misses a beat by avoiding the ethical implications of Third World profiteering. The film has a funny streak a mile wild - but a lot of this humour is undercut when the gags keep coming, and the reality check doesn't.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 8, 2019

It's got the good-looking movie star uglying up and plenty of attempts at complex drama and extended metaphors and the whole shebang. But for whatever reason, the pieces don't fit together. It just doesn't work.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 13, 2019

Wells is a fascinating character and, on paper, would seem to be a dream role... but, for all its padding, it is a rather thinly-sketched role, and the actor's performance is little more than a scenery-chewing exercise.

| Feb 13, 2019

The characters are fun and the plot serviceable, but it distinctly lacks a hook.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Sep 18, 2018

A takedown of the kind of high-octane greed and speculation that lead to financial crashes, it stars Matthew McConaughey in all his sweaty, bouncing-off-the-walls, Wolf of Wall Street and Dallas Buyers Club glory.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 23, 2018

Gaghan never catches you up in Wells's gold-fever dream, so the movie, like his plan, falls apart. His attempt to impose a mock-heroic template on the material, doesn't fit.

| Mar 8, 2018

But "Gold" proves that you need more than a thinning hairline and a bulging waistline.

| Dec 20, 2017

Gold is entertaining enough, mostly because McConaughey and Ramirez are compelling actors.

| Dec 19, 2017

This would have been better served as a segment on Drunk History.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Nov 5, 2017