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  1. Money Monster movie review & film summary (2016)

    Advertisement. "Money Monster" zips by while it stays in the studio. When it ventures out into the streets of lower Manhattan in the third act, though, it loses its way. Ironically, the film gets loose and meanders just as it should be reaching a tight, tense climax. A hostage situation turns into a circus; what was once dramatic is now ...

  2. Money Monster

    59% Tomatometer 284 Reviews 50% Audience Score 10,000+ Ratings Lee Gates is a Wall Street guru who picks hot stocks as host of the television show "Money Monster." Suddenly, during a live ...

  3. Review: In 'Money Monster,' a Broke Investor Holds a Grudge and a Gun

    Crime, Drama, Thriller. R. 1h 38m. By A.O. Scott. May 12, 2016. "Money Monster" begins with a jolt of satire, proceeds through a maze of beat-the-clock exposition and lands on a surprisingly ...

  4. Money Monster

    Verified Audience. Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review. For a hostage thriller that wants its audience to ponder Wall Street's crimes, Money Monster's message feels muddled, and the film remains far ...

  5. Money Monster review

    Julia Roberts plays a harassed TV producer who has to keep in line her waning star: Lee Gates, played by George Clooney, the ego-crazed, silver-fox presenter of a TV show called Money Monster ...

  6. Money Monster (2016)

    Money Monster: Directed by Jodie Foster. With George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Jack O'Connell, Dominic West. Financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor takes them and their crew as hostage.

  7. Money Monster

    Money Monster is a 2016 American crime thriller film directed by Jodie Foster, with a screenplay by Jamie Linden, Alan Di Fiore, and Jim Kouf from a story by Di Fiore and Kouf. The film stars George Clooney (who also co-produced), Julia Roberts, Jack O'Connell, Dominic West, Caitríona Balfe, and Giancarlo Esposito.It follows financial television host Lee Gates and his producer Patty Fenn, as ...

  8. Money Monster Review: George Clooney, Julia Roberts

    movies; Review: Why <i>Money Monster</i> Will Make You Mad as Hell; Review: Why Money Monster Will Make You Mad as Hell. 6 minute read. By Stephanie Zacharek. May 12, 2016 1:46 PM EDT.

  9. 'Money Monster' Movie Review

    George Clooney is a financial-TV guru held at gunpoint in Jodie Foster's Wall Street takedown 'Money Monster,' costarring Julia Roberts. Our review.

  10. Cannes Film Review: 'Money Monster'

    Cannes Film Review: 'Money Monster' Reviewed at Landmark Theaters, Los Angeles, May 3, 2016. (In Cannes Film Festival.) MPAA rating: R. Running time: 98 MIN. ... This is a very much ...

  11. Money Monster Is A Tense Real-Time Thriller

    Money Monster (2016) 59%. A topical thriller that takes on both glib TV infotainment and Wall Street greed, Jodie Foster 's latest directorial effort is a movie with a lot on its mind. However, critics say Money Monster works best as a showcase for George Clooney and Julia Roberts, whose commanding performances help to balance the film's ...

  12. Money Monster review

    Jack O'Connell makes a lot of noise to little effect in Jodie Foster's crude media satire. J odie Foster directs this shouty satire, which blends the glib economic cynicism of The Big Short ...

  13. Money Monster Review

    Money Monster also has issues when it leaves the confines of the TV show and its control room, run by director Patty Fenn (Julia Roberts). There is a fantastic sense of urgency to film caused by ...

  14. Money Monster Review

    Money Monster is a well-directed and well-acted dramatic thriller weighed down by heavy-handed social commentary and implausible plot beats. The movie admirably makes an effort to avoid pointing the finger of blame for the present-day social/political problems that it calls attention to at any single group of people, but Money Monster ...

  15. Money Monster

    It's scary-funny; the screenwriter's pen must have slipped, creating a moment of wit. Elsewhere the yammer and righteousness defeat Clooney and even Julia Roberts, stuck at a console twitching ...

  16. Money Monster

    Money Monster - Metacritic. Summary Lee Gates (George Clooney) is a bombastic TV personality whose popular financial network show has made him the money wiz of Wall Street. But after he hawks a high tech stock that mysteriously crashes, an irate investor (Jack O'Connell) takes Gates, his crew, and his ace producer Patty Fenn (Julia Roberts ...

  17. Movie Review

    Money Monster, 2016. Directed by Jodie Foster. Starring George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Jack O'Connell, Caitriona Balfe, Giancarlo Esposito, Christopher Denham, Emily Meade, and Dominic West ...

  18. Money Monster

    Money Monster plays on our collective financial insecurity—the unease that many feel over stocks, bonds and the bewildering complexity of how 21st-century money is made. Through its improbable setup, the movie pokes at a whole assortment of things it deems to be societal ills: the freewheeling market that sometimes (according to the movie ...

  19. Money Monster Movie Review

    Also encour. Guns and shooting. Characters are shot; some are w. Parents need to know that Money Monster is a hostage story crossed with a "media circus" story. It has some violent scenes: There are guns and shooting, characters are wounded and killed, and blood is seen. There are other brief violent images, too, plus the threat of explosives.

  20. Money Monster (2016)

    Money Monster is a superb film. It is thrilling & dramatically intense, at the same time. Director Jodie Foster has done a masterful job, in maintaining the suspense & building the tension, throughout the film. Foster's directorial skills, are as good as her supreme acting ability.

  21. Money Monster: the financial thriller that'll leave you short-changed

    Money Monster review - George Clooney goes Leslie Nielsen in popcorn hostage thriller. Read more. The movie unfolds in real time - always a problematic gimmick - during a live broadcast that ...

  22. Film Review: Money Monster

    Film Reviews; Film Review: Money Monster. Jodie Foster's feature tackles hot economic topics with a heavy hand. C- ... Money Monster details a day in the life of the Jim Cramer-esque finance pundit Joe Gates ... a movie like Money Monster certainly has an audience receptive to its message. But that message can be delivered with subtlety and ...

  23. 'Money Monster' Review: An Investment That Doesn't Pay Off

    The early moments of Money Monster fly by in a barrage of exposition, conversation and cable TV bodies in motion. In the opening scene, we meet Lee Gates (George Clooney), the histrionic, Jim ...