The Founder's reviews
Media reviews
Screen Daily
The extent of Kroc's greed is The Founder's unique playing card, and John Lee Hancock delivers it with a depressingly special sauce.
Variety
It spins a classical tale of underdog entrepreneurship and American Dream-chasing with one eccentric twist: Its chief hero and villain are the same person.
Los Angeles Times
'The Founder' is a sharp and satisfyingly fat-free account of how a wily salesman took a lucrative Southern California burger joint and turned it into the world?s biggest fast-food empire
The A.V. Club
The Founder is drier than either of those movies, which means it's less funny but also has even less potential for sentiment.
Indiewire
Yet it still leaves the sour impression that Kroc got the last laugh. Even in this less-than-flattering portrait, he remains its brightest star.
Time Out
Like the product that inspired it, The Founder is tasty enough while it lasts but never quite fills you up.
The Hollywood Reporter
And they say Americans don't do irony.
The Wrap
Screenwriter Robert D. Siegel and director John Lee Hancock obviously knew that McDonald?s was never going to sign off on this biopic, but they seem afraid to go too deeply into the warts-and-all nature of the story.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote