Veiroj is linking political transgression and religious hypocrisy but doesn’t bother to over-state the case. The narrative presents a clear-cut study of two decades of political instability and the role economic dishonesty inevitably plays...

| Dec 5, 2022

... it advanced a wry sense of morality in its ironic account of a corrupt banker who thrived under Uruguay's era of dictatorship.

| Dec 30, 2019

If you're going to open your film with a sequence straight out of the Bible, you had better not come to play.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Oct 19, 2019

A movie that has the ability to report without underlining and being overly accusatory. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Oct 6, 2019

We could even say that The Moneychanger is [director Federico Veiroj's] "mainstream" movie, without neglecting his independent side. [Full review in Spanish]

| Sep 26, 2019

These types of films usually star a cool customer eating people and spitting them out. This time our lead is the one being spit.

| Original Score: B | Sep 25, 2019

[The film's] tone borders on self-parody and its own characters prevent any degree of empathy from the public. [Full review in Spanish]

| Sep 23, 2019

The parody unfolds with humor and a fluid sense of rhythm. [Full review in Spanish]

| Sep 23, 2019

A continent-hopping dramedy that's not very funny and never catches fire.

| Sep 17, 2019

[Its] approach is sly, but fittingly for the story...The Moneychanger sneaks up on you while actually fulfilling its promise of a good time.

| Sep 16, 2019

Handler's comic performance and Veiroj's matter-of-fact style do a good job of setting the film apart from its peers.

| Sep 16, 2019

Sure, it's timely to see The Moneychanger in an age in which nice guys still finish last and a*s continue to get ahead, but the film peddles a kind of basic comedy that's oddly tone-deaf...

| Sep 16, 2019

Yet the images, and the actions within them, lack the acerbic edge that would really drive the knife in. Much like Brause himself, the film tends toward the handsome, yet hollow.

| Sep 13, 2019

Even if the personal and political don't always line up neatly in The Moneychanger, it's an engaging character study of a man with little character, elevated by Veiroj's unusual eye.

| Original Score: B | Sep 10, 2019

That extra layer of meaning that makes Humberto's saga so enticing.

| Sep 10, 2019

It has a terrific sense of place and time and offers wonderful performances... suffers from a lack of consistent tension and overall clarity.

| Sep 9, 2019

Although likely to be a winning combination of familiar narrative tactics and subject paired with ambitious, period-defined political intrigue, The Moneychanger doesn't conquer any new territory.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 9, 2019

An enjoyably offbeat period character study wrapped in a thriller and laced with bone-dry humour that charts the rise of a conscience-free money launderer during the 1970s Uruguayan military dictatorship.

| Sep 9, 2019

Veiroj competently presents a balance between dark humor and elements of thriller. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 9, 2019

Federico Veiroj continuously underlines in red ink his protagonist's cowardness, impulsive greediness, and lust.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 9, 2019