Foster deftly handles tonal shifts between humour, satire and comment to deliver a timely and thrilling entertainer.

| Aug 15, 2019

The yammer and righteousness defeat Clooney and even Julia Roberts, stuck at a console twitching knobs and micromanaging frowns as the producer trying to hold the show together.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 30, 2016

There's a great moment near the end where she literally turns the camera on the audience itself, breaking the fourth wall in a way that is eerie and striking.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 9, 2016

It wants to be more than just a thriller; it aims to attack rapacious financial institutions, witless 온라인카지노추천 programs and the short attention span of the general public, and for the most part it manages to achieve all of that.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 10, 2016

It may be Hollywood melodrama but it's top of the range, giving Clooney and Roberts every opportunity to demonstrate the value of star power. And it's refreshing to have a studio picture about anti-heroes rather than super-heroes.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 9, 2016

Money Monster works better as comedy than thriller - but that's not all it wants to be.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 1, 2016

Foster tries to muster audience sympathy for Kyle. But her tools are crude.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 29, 2016

Even professionals sometimes take a loss, and that's what Money Monster ultimately feels like: an investment that doesn't quite pay off.

| May 27, 2016

Money Monster is entertaining enough as a thriller. It is also strangely undercharged and lacking in ambition given the talent behind it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 26, 2016

A fast-paced, entertaining, if somewhat on-the-nose mlange of thriller, satire, and drama, this is Jodie Foster's best movie as a director.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 25, 2016

The frenzied drama has no clear point of view besides its air of celebrity condescension.

| May 23, 2016

With all the ranting about a "rigged" financial system, the movie certainly captures the zeitgeist, but it' so overloaded with action-movie tropes and tech-based plot contrivances that it begins to feel a little silly.

| May 19, 2016

No matter how many times Jack O'Connell waves his gun in the air and threatens to detonate the place with a bomb, you never truly believe anyone's life is in danger.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 19, 2016

While the Occupy Wall Street rage supposedly fueling this thing is flimsy, what's left is still solidly entertaining.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 19, 2016

A bewilderingly facile and preposterously plotted misfire that offers few pleasures as either a star-driven thriller or a big-screen indictment of the forces that devastated global bank accounts.

| May 18, 2016

The pieces would seem to be in place, but ... "Money Monster" is a stodgy, moribund plodder loaded with stock characters that wouldn't have felt edgy in 1983 and has about the same contemporary urgency as your average late-night rerun of "CSI: NY."

| May 16, 2016

Essentially this is a uncomplicated comedy-thriller, in which Clooney comes good for the little guy and finds his own redemption, Julia Roberts changes her mind, and the markets are not guilty ...

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 15, 2016

Essential elements are there for Money Monster to be more than just good: skillful direction, whiplash editing, and up to the mark performances... and yet...

| Original Score: 2.25 | May 13, 2016

Investing in this movie would not be a safe bet.

| Original Score: C- | May 13, 2016

Finds intelligent craft at the service of a script that opens with the warning "It's about to get complicated," and then proceeds to dumb itself down to the level of your average CBS prime-time drama.

| May 13, 2016