Money Monster: reviews

What the critics say average 6.8 from 7 outlets

• 8.8 Chicago Sun-TimesRichard Roeper Thanks to a stylish directorial turn by Jodie Foster and the shining star power of George Clooney and Julia Roberts (as well as a first-rate supporting cast), Money Monster rises above an uneven script that veers from clever and insightful to heavy-handed and obvious ? sometimes within the same scene. Read
• 7.5 New York PostLou Lumenick Cross 'Dog Day Afternoon?' with 'The Big Short?' and throw in a dash of 'Network?' and you?ve got Money Monster, a clever financial thriller with comic overtones that?s a solid investment of your time thanks to stellar work by George Clooney and Julia Roberts. Read
• 7.5 El PaísCarlos Boyero In the script there are things that sound déjà vu to me, some unlikely situation and foreseeable, but is also a film with tension, well told. Read
• 7.5 ABCOti Rodríguez Marchante Foster builds one of those intrigues in which not spare a minute with a montage as being whisking eggs that keeps you so tense as a greyhound in his drawer, and although development does not reach any unforeseen, the film leaves a clear and resounding impression on the muscle television and evil practices in the financial world. Read
• 6.0 The GuardianPeter Bradshaw This is no masterpiece, but it?s amiable slice of popcorn entertainment. Read
• 5.0 The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthy Unfortunately, as a director, Foster shows no knack or instinct for building tension; her style is strictly presentational, brisk and efficient, but with no sly trickery, desire to surprise or to forge technique that suggests an imaginative approach to storytelling. Read
• 5.0 La RazónSergi Sánchez The problem of the film is that the alleged dramatic tension of his premise never becomes manifest. Foster tries to compensate for this lack of originality being more direct, does not waste a minute to start the stopwatch, and disguising the story of an urgency and a nerve that entertain but do not report. Read