Eternally relevant and immediately obsolete.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 15, 2021

Sets its sights beyond the story of Wall Street intrigue to focus on something much bigger, the effects of global capitalism.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 4, 2021

The Hummingbird Project asks the question but never gives a satisfying answer.

| Jan 7, 2021

The film's great dramatic question, as to whether Vincent and Anton will achieve their aim, simply does not arouse compelling interest.

| Dec 4, 2020

However, it's Alexander Skarsgard that shows a range we haven't seem from him before as Anton, a troubled genius whose intellectual gifts end up being more of a curse than a blessing.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Nov 14, 2020

The Hummingbird Project is a good film, but it's never as meaningful or as successful as it wants to be.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 11, 2020

I'm not really sure what the moral of this story is, but I did enjoy the chance to watch these incredible performers really inhabit these roles.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 21, 2020

What might have made for either a thrilling, high-stakes drama or, at the very least, an intelligent comedy, ends up wildly uneven.

| Mar 13, 2020

In a film so dull it would make the flap of a hummingbird's wing feel liked it lasted for eternity, a stellar cast is squandered on shallow characters and a what-were-they-thinking script.

| Oct 2, 2019

It is [Jesse] Eisenberg's best work in years.

| Jul 10, 2019

Although sometimes it gets bogged down in the details of drilling, The Hummingbird Project extracts enough entertainment value from an unpromising premise, greatly helped by Jesse Eisenberg finding the humanity in his hustler.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 17, 2019

This has to go down as one of the nicest surprises of early summer - clever, ambitious and beautifully acted by Jesse Eisenberg and Alexander Skarsgård, who surely gives one of the best performances of his career.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 17, 2019

But, while it falls some way below the standards set by Nguyen's Oscar-nominated child-soldier saga, War Witch (2012), this has a cockeyed conviction that keeps you watching.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 17, 2019

Part thriller, part family drama, part satirical commentary on the way that the pursuit of wealth is a cultural cancer that taints everything it touches, The Hummingbird Project is no less compelling for its odd mishmash of components.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 16, 2019

It sounds deeply unappetizing, but in fact, it's really enjoyable to watch. It's about obsession in a way I really like...

| Jun 14, 2019

It's typical of a movie, written and directed by the Canadian film-maker Kim Nguyen, that hits all the right genre beats while consistently reaching for something more.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 14, 2019

An unusual film, brought arrestingly to life...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 14, 2019

I found the film funny, twisty and exciting enough to keep me watching, eager to find out of their mad caper would work in time.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 14, 2019

It's the kind of verbose corporate parable David Mamet would sit down to write after a heavy night on the sauce.

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

It may be a modest indie film, but it deserves a broad audience. Highly recommended.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 13, 2019