Capital
Cohen Media Group | Release Date: October 25, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 18 Critic Reviews
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85
NPRElla TaylorOct 25, 2013
Costa-Gavras' film excels as a meticulously researched procedural that goes deep into the grime of greed, deception and cynical exploitation. But it is also a wickedly clever character analysis of a man more divided against himself than his preternatural calm suggests. Read full review
83
IndieWireEric KohnOct 24, 2013
Gavras never forces the material into allegorical turf; it's a relatively straightforward look at the ramifications of getting blinded by dollar signs, with perhaps one of the most clearly defined visions of economic depravity since "Wall Street." Read full review
80
VarietyJoe LeydonOct 4, 2013
Costa-Gavras develops such a propulsively suspenseful pace — with no small assist from Armand Amar’s mood-enhancing Euro-tech score — that his drama comes across as the cinematic equivalent of an engrossing page-turner you might purchase off the rack at an airport newsstand. Read full review
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Staff [Not Credited]Oct 4, 2013
Clearly, Costa-Gavras has lost none of his kinetic pacing or his cerebral way with thrills. Unfortunately, the script later gets corrupted itself by a sexual melodrama that lacks both sense and sultriness. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungOct 4, 2013
A film that lingers in the memory in spite of being rather irritating to watch. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comChristy LemireNov 1, 2013
The famously left-leaning Costa-Gavras is preaching to the choir in his indignation, but he does so in slick, brisk fashion. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineSteve MacfarlaneOct 23, 2013
Costa-Gavras's new film is more a funhouse-mirror panegyric (albeit on an exhausted topic) than the staid thriller promised by its press materials. Read full review
63
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreOct 22, 2013
A mildly entertaining sermon about American “Cowboy Capitalism” as it rubs up against “The French Way.” Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleNov 1, 2013
There's plenty of pacing verve in Costa-Gavras' technique, and the residue from that first thrilling peek inside the hermetic world of big-time money-moving never goes away. What's lacking is most surprising from this dissident filmmaker: the emotional outrage. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierOct 25, 2013
Sex is plentiful, but the lust is for paydays. This is territory covered far more vibrantly in “Margin Call,” yet director Costa-Gavras (“Z,” “Missing”) still has good, old-fashioned indignation to count on. Read full review
60
SalonOct 24, 2013
Uneven as Capital is, unlike so many films about capitalism it’s never boring and is unafraid of its point of view. Read full review
60
The DissolveMike D'AngeloOct 21, 2013
While the film is persuasive and detailed in its depiction of financial corruption, it’s also essentially a two-hour lecture, dry and academic. Read full review
50
The PlaylistKevin JagernauthOct 24, 2013
Yet despite recent solid entries like "Margin Call" and "Too Big Too Fail," we're yet to see the first great contemporary movie about the country, and world's, economic woes, and unfortunately Costa-Gavras' Le Capital doesn't remedy that situation. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyOct 23, 2013
The imagery is cliché, and therefore ineffective; the characters don’t seem to operate in the world of finance, but in the world of financial thrillers. Read full review
40
Time OutDavid FearOct 22, 2013
Capital ends up being neither a high-stakes thriller nor a cutting commentary on real-world bad behavior. It’s just CEO exotica, all dressed up with nowhere to go. Read full review
40
Village VoiceJon FroschOct 15, 2013
A tacky corporate noir that makes you long for the leanness of Margin Call, or even the clumsy theatrics of Arbitrage. Read full review
37
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanOct 31, 2013
Capital is too cynical to ever really suggest that redemption is possible. Not that anyone watching will even care. Read full review
30
The New York TimesStephen HoldenOct 24, 2013
Its indictment of capitalism is so shrill and one-note that it may just as easily set off fits of giggling, because its characters are so ridiculously evil. Read full review
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