Stone succeeds in making Money Never Sleeps part social commentary and part melodrama for a curious mix that leaves the viewer extremely satisfied.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 3, 2023

More than anything, Wall Street 2's ultimate failure is it's more likely to make the viewer crave a 'World's Greatest Dad' mug than a sports car and Daryl Hannah. A disappointment, frankly.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 20, 2021

Once again, audiences must toil over the money lingo and investment terminology of which the average person has no knowledge.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 30, 2020

It may very well put you to sleep.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Sep 26, 2020

A surprisingly good movie about what is happening right now, within the back rooms of tall skyscrapers, where villains make deals behind business suits and slicked back hair.

| Original Score: A- | Aug 13, 2020

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps is something valuable, a fable about how speculative capitalism can provide us a surplus to live peacefully and happily in a juicy lie. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Apr 24, 2020

All in all, Wall Street is a thoughtful, having-it-both-ways good time about a more chastened present whose mix of playfulness and cynicism is illustrated by a winking '80s-evocative soundtrack.

| Jan 22, 2020

Oliver Stone, director of Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, is beginning to grow on me. Yes, I'm even a bit surprised myself by this turn of events.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 14, 2020

Stone's movie is a putative critique of capitalism gone mad, yet it revels in the opulence of the world it's trying to tear down. Like a bloodthirsty anti-war movie. That said, there's some fun to be had in this over-ripe melodrama...

| Aug 20, 2019

Aside from the relative dramatic quandary for Stone in bringing back his cult character, he actually visualises and works through his ideas on the banking crisis very well.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 15, 2019

Wall Street may not rock the charts, but it's pretty much right on the money as far as entertainment value goes.

| Mar 2, 2019

Stone has created a thrilling and timely drama, encompassing subjects from the Global Recession to the remnants of 1980's Reaganism within modern America. However, it is the film's outstanding cast that truly steals the limelight.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 5, 2018

This film misses its own story. It's a middle-brow male weepy, and no more. Money never sleeps, but you might. I can't say I didn't enjoy a little doze myself.

| Aug 30, 2018

Because the overly ambitious storyline lacks clarity, the film lacks the pulse-pounding energy of the original. What heart there is comes from the family drama among Jake, Winnie, and Gordon.

| Apr 4, 2018

It's a perfectly fine movie that could have been above-average good but was wrecked by too much story clutter and messy editing.

| Oct 24, 2017

Often, the film feels more like a lecture than a narrative-minus the one thing that makes a lecture useful: actual information.

| Aug 29, 2017

Money Never Sleeps shows the black ice that our prosperity as a nation travels on. It's a warning straight out of Dickens but without a happy ending for the poor and comeuppance for the perpetrators.

| Jun 29, 2017

Lazy directing on the behalf of Oliver Stone, the miscasting of Shia LaBeouf and an often incomprehensible plot turn this film into a total mess.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Nov 9, 2013

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 4, 2013

The bottom line on "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" is that it is sprinkled with inspired scenes, but is never able to fully engage the viewer because of its meandering and unfocused storylines.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 22, 2012