All the Money in the World
Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) | Release Date: December 25, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 47 Critic Reviews
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40
Mixed:
6
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleDec 27, 2017
It’s as realized a thriller as you are likely to find, not only in the precision of its performances, but in its evocative use of location (Rome, London), its period detail (especially Williams’ clothing) and the tension of the younger Getty’s months-long captivity. Read full review
91
ConsequenceClint WorthingtonDec 22, 2017
Some people will think it’s a bizarre mess, others an unconventional masterwork. If there’s any justice in the world, the latter group will win out. Read full review
90
The New York TimesManohla DargisDec 24, 2017
All the Money in the World revs up beautifully, first as a thriller. But while the kidnapping is the movie’s main event, it is only part of a story that is, by turns, a sordid, desperate and anguished tragedy about money. Read full review
90
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyDec 19, 2017
It's a true-life yarn loaded with extremes, of wealth, personal eccentricities, grief, tension, daring, criminal means to political ends, maternal drive and luck, both bad and good. It is also a peek into a rarefied world where money knows no bounds and yet means everything. Read full review
88
St. Louis Post-DispatchCalvin WilsonDec 27, 2017
An absorbing drama that represents director Ridley Scott (“The Martian”) at his best. Read full review
88
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperDec 24, 2017
For a time this movie will probably be best known for the behind-the-scenes drama. But the work itself deserves to endure as one of the better films of 2017. Read full review
88
New York PostJohnny OleksinskiDec 20, 2017
Plummer’s last-minute performance is smashing. In fact, the whole film is excellent. Read full review
85
TheWrapRobert AbeleDec 19, 2017
Scott whips it all into shape: the tense action involving the kidnappers, the investigation’s twists, the maddening campaign to give Getty a financial incentive in freeing his grandson, and the emotional toll it takes on everyone (Getty included). Read full review
83
Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattDec 21, 2017
A smart, eminently watchable thriller, taut and stylish, and Plummer is remarkably good in it. Read full review
80
Total FilmKevin HarleyJan 20, 2018
Scott steers his ideas-rich, character-based thriller with brisk authority. Plummer and Williams bring their all. Read full review
80
EmpireNick de SemlyenJan 8, 2018
Two men in their 80s power the month’s most pulse-pounding thriller. Who could have seen that coming? Read full review
80
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternDec 22, 2017
Expansively, melodramatically entertaining. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranDec 21, 2017
Though its theme of the corrosive influence of unimaginable wealth is not exactly news, "All the Money" benefits, in much the same way that Scott's similar (and underappreciated) "American Gangster" did, from the director's expertise at bringing pace and interest to stories he cares enough about to sink his teeth into. Read full review
80
Time OutJoshua RothkopfDec 19, 2017
David Scarpa’s nail-biter of a screenplay—based on John Pearson’s 1995 account Painfully Rich, adapted with a free dramatic license—amps up the tension with phoned-in demands and impulsive raids by knuckleheaded local police, yet it never loses the bitter, fascinating taste of imperious wealth. Read full review
80
The TelegraphRobbie CollinDec 19, 2017
As ever with Scott, the film unfolds in a richly realised world and moves with an addictive, free-wheeling swagger. And his four main actors – Williams, Wahlberg and the Plummers old and young – have all been astutely cast. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawDec 19, 2017
All The Money In The World is not perfect; there is a touch of naïveté and stereotyping in its depiction of the malign Italians with their one, redemptive nice-guy gangster. But with the help of Plummer’s tremendous villain-autocrat performance, Ridley Scott gives us a very entertaining parable about money and what it can’t buy. Read full review
75
The Film StageStaff (Not Credited)Jan 2, 2018
In time perhaps we will come to regard where All the Money stands as a historical artifact of a watershed moment in Hollywood’s history. For now, it should be noted that the film itself is actually good–very good, even–and exists in a space all its own. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzDec 27, 2017
A long-winded but engrossing kidnap thriller. Read full review
75
ObserverRex ReedDec 27, 2017
Ridley Scott does a meticulous job of unraveling myriad gruesome facts in the case, and although it’s no surprise how it all turns out, the way a complex crime is played to the final throw of the dice by opposing forces is both admirable and focused. Read full review
75
USA TodayBrian TruittDec 21, 2017
Given the high-profile backstory, Money is very much a Plummer showpiece — a Golden Globe probably isn't the only trophy he'll be nominated for this awards season — yet just as integral is Williams, whose character is Getty’s biggest foil. Read full review
75
Movie NationRoger MooreDec 21, 2017
Scott and Plummer conspire to give us the ultimate portrait of greed, pettiness and the deep psychological holes in the souls of those obsessed with acquiring wealth and maintaining it. Read full review
75
Rolling StonePeter TraversDec 20, 2017
Though the rest of All the Money in the World expertly skims the surface of this true-life drama, Scott makes it a hell of a ride. Read full review
75
The Seattle TimesMoira MacdonaldDec 20, 2017
If it occasionally feels a little too cinematic, with a few too many obstacles thrown in the way of Gail and her son, so be it. The film’s an impressive accomplishment, on several levels. Read full review
75
Vanity FairRichard LawsonDec 20, 2017
The film shows—and says plainly, at one point—that people with extreme wealth are so divorced from reality that they become almost another species. Yet it doesn’t fully explore the weirdness of that, the chilling tragedy of it. Instead, Scott has made simply a competent thriller that dazzles only in the ingeniousness of its lightning-quick and proficient re-staging. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsDec 20, 2017
Scott’s production works on the level of classy, confident yarn-spinning. Read full review
75
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanDec 19, 2017
All the Money in the World may not have that many surprises up its sleeve, especially if you already know how this story ends. You will, however, get your money’s worth, one way or another: whether it’s from the crime thriller or the thought-provoking sermon on filthy lucre that it throws in, at no extra charge. Read full review
75
The PlaylistRodrigo PerezDec 19, 2017
You may hate All The Money In The World, and you would be well within your rights to feel that way, but there’s no denying that the film is bold and ballsy. Read full review
70
TimeStephanie ZacharekDec 22, 2017
This is a beguiling, somewhat grisly drama, based on something that happened to one genuinely unhappy, messed-up family. Read full review
70
IGNWilliam BibbianiDec 21, 2017
At its best, All the Money in the World is a rich and exciting story about a woman trapped in a universe of apathetic and powerful men, fighting her way out any which way she can. At its worst it’s a well-shot but ultimately middling thriller. Read full review
70
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzDec 21, 2017
There is a hollowed-out gravitas to his Getty, the perfect example of someone for whom having almost literally everything is just not enough, and Plummer captures this magnificently. No matter how he got there, it’s impossible now to imagine All the Money in the World without him. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinDec 20, 2017
It’s a real transformation. I’ve never heard this diction from her (Michelle Williams) before — sharp, with a hint of North Shore (i.e., old money) Long Island and perhaps a Kennedy or two. (The real Gail grew up in San Francisco but was well acquainted with the cadences of the East Coast rich.) Through the tension in her body and intensity of her voice, Williams conveys not just the terror of losing a son but the tragic absurdity of bearing the illustrious name Getty when family ties confer zero power. Read full review
70
Screen DailyTim GriersonDec 19, 2017
The muddled but icily engaging All The Money In The World is a thriller packed with ideas which director Ridley Scott only sporadically delineates with the same vividness as he does his stylish compositions. And yet, this true-life tale of the kidnapping of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty’s grandson maintains its hold, bluntly outlining how the desperate clamour for wealth poisons all those caught up in its frenzy. Read full review
70
New York Daily NewsEthan SacksDec 19, 2017
Scott and Plummer may deserve a standing ovation for taking a powerful stand amid the #metoo movement. If only the rest of All the Money the World was as powerful. Read full review
67
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerJan 19, 2018
At 88, Christopher is at the top of his game. He turns Getty into a dastardly miser with an aggrieved core. There hasn’t been such a lonely mogul in the movies since Orson Welles’s Charles Foster Kane expired with “Rosebud” on his lips. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovDec 21, 2017
A surface viewing of the film makes it feel like this is one of Scott’s lesser magnum opuses but on closer inspection this is a story that’s all but contemporaneous given its through-line of amoral acquisitiveness. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Dec 21, 2017
All The Money In The World is uneven prestige pulp: a kidnapping drama that also fancies itself a study of how money corrupts relationships and short-circuits compassion. Read full review
67
IndieWireEric KohnDec 19, 2017
As an experiment in filmmaking trickery, All the Money in the World is an extraordinary viewing experience; without that, it’s a compulsively watchable rumination on the worst of the one percent. Read full review
63
Philadelphia Daily NewsGary ThompsonJan 2, 2018
Williams and Plummer are fine, yet for all their efforts the movie endures a strangely listless first hour. The kidnapping and subsequent investigation feel under-plotted, highlighting Wahlberg’s curiously inert presence in the movie. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeMark FeeneyDec 27, 2017
A better title might have been “All the Movies in the World.” We get a thriller, of sorts, and a crime movie, of sorts (Romain Duris, as a kidnapper, gives the most appealing performance). It’s also a morality tale crossed with family melodrama. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliDec 27, 2017
When Getty isn’t on-screen, the movie is a bit of a bore and it doesn’t help that Mark Wahlberg is woefully miscast and the thriller elements are anything but tense or suspenseful. Read full review
60
The AtlanticDavid SimsJan 7, 2018
All the Money in the World is watchable and at times quite gripping, but it’s little more than a middling entry in Scott’s long career. Read full review
60
Village VoiceBilge EbiriDec 26, 2017
It’s easy to appreciate the director’s eye even while being left mostly cold by everything else. It’s almost as if, in trying to make a film about the gilded prison of wealth, Ridley Scott has made one about the gilded prison of empty, beautiful images. Read full review
60
VarietyPeter DebrugeDec 20, 2017
We may never know how Spacey would have been, but Plummer is easily the best thing about a film that is technically accomplished, yet a bit too mechanical in the way it sets up and executes the high-stakes kidnapping at its center. Read full review
50
VoxAlissa WilkinsonDec 21, 2017
I left All the Money in the World wondering why this was a movie at all. It’s a series of events that happened, to be sure. And Getty is an important and interesting figure from the middle of the 20th century. But those facts don’t make for a good movie. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzDec 19, 2017
Without Christopher Plummer, All the Money in the World would be an absolute bore. Read full review
49
Paste MagazineWill LeitchDec 20, 2017
For all the technical achievement on display, as impressive as it is that you could recast a main role in so short amount of time, All the Money in the World is disjointed and frazzled. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineHenry StewartDec 21, 2017
As released, All the Money in the World is by and large a conspicuously manufactured thriller that moves between manipulative psych-outs. Read full review
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