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

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

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

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

That the film is watchable at all, as incongruity, improbability and incomprehensibility accumulate, is a tribute to Canadian director Kim Nguyen, skilfully negotiating a script by Kim Nguyen.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 12, 2019

A finance story that stretches beyond the usual coke-addled Wall Street traders.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 12, 2019

It's an odd tale, but in its sneaky way, an unexpectedly engaging one.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 25, 2019

[A]n invigorating snapshot of greed that examines how far competitors will go to gain even the slightest fraction of an edge over their rivals in the stock market.

| Original Score: A- | Mar 29, 2019

What makes The Hummingbird Project so intriguing is that it explores areas of business - and of industrial espionage - so esoteric that it's hard to imagine that it's really a business model.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 28, 2019

The Hummingbird Project runs a lot thicker and deeper than that fiber-optic cable.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 22, 2019

And so you will get no Scorsesian tracking shots of firecracker trading floors, no giddy frat boy Champagne-shaking antics; this is a slow-boil thriller coursing with melancholy.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 21, 2019

A believability problem hampers this potentially fascinating story about the high-tech Wild West.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 21, 2019

"The Hummingbird Project" basically works; it's intriguing; the actors play it just straight enough to make it feel like a fact-based drama (though it isn't) with a few darkly comic details.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 21, 2019

It all feels a bit contrived.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 21, 2019

It may be haphazard and loosely focused. But thanks to Skarsgård it's never really boring.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 20, 2019

At once an offbeat comedy and a satisfyingly weird thriller.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 20, 2019

It's a lot to pack into a movie of less than two hours of running time. To Nguyen's credit, he balances the elements of his screenplay with such skill that the audience doesn't get too lost in the weeds.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 19, 2019