Greed
Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: February 28, 2020 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 32 Critic Reviews
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinFeb 27, 2020
Coalesces into a thoughtful, pointed, at times deceptively profound look at how the rich get richer and, well, you know what happens to the poor. Read full review
80
Screen DailyAllan HunterSep 11, 2019
Winterbottom delivers a heady cocktail of absurdity and profundity, laced with a generous measure of cutting one-liners in a film that builds into a scathing commentary on a world where the rich keep getting richer and the poor are merely collateral damage. Read full review
75
UproxxVince ManciniMar 26, 2020
Greed is solidly entertaining throughout, but its attempt to mix comedy, tragedy, reality, absurdity, exposé, and mockumentary… is maybe biting off a little more than it can chew. Read full review
75
The Seattle TimesKatie WalshMar 5, 2020
It’s arresting, but the rapid shift in tone could give one whiplash. Read full review
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Nathalie AtkinsonMar 4, 2020
Greed’s antihero is known as “Rich" to his intimates and his surname earns him the moniker “greedy McCreadie.” It’s not subtle stuff but then, investigative journalism, censure, documentary exposés, and empathy haven’t worked so far to cure our rapacious fast-fashion appetite – so why not a movie? Read full review
70
The New York TimesGlenn KennyFeb 27, 2020
Coogan brings his usual comic reliability to his characterization, as does Isla Fisher as the rich man’s predictably estranged wife, and they wring laughs from the material. Read full review
68
TheWrapRobert AbeleFeb 26, 2020
There’s no getting around how enjoyable it is to watch Coogan effortlessly play an entitled bastard, whether giving it or getting it. He’s so expert at the darkly witty, cringe-while-laughing insult, it’s like watching a pro athlete in flight; it’s a shame Winterbottom’s ambitions for Greed weren’t greater as a rollicking, truly scary picture of unrepentant gluttony. Read full review
67
Original-CinKim HughesMar 5, 2020
It means well, but Greed fails to locate the heart of the fast-fashion calamity, instead spotlighting the grotesqueness of the one percent at the expense of everyone else. Read full review
67
The Film StageMark AschSep 12, 2019
A film casting stones at excess, Greed is hardly without sin itself. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeTy BurrMar 4, 2020
A scattershot satire about the vulgar, privileged one percent, British division, that’s almost as funny as it is furious. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineChris BarsantiFeb 23, 2020
The film takes occasional stabs at comic grotesquerie, but it’s brought back to earth by an insistent docudrama seriousness. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comSimon AbramsFeb 21, 2020
Greed is never the sum of its best parts since other actors — especially Jamie Blackley, who, playing young McCreadie in a series of flashbacks, is fine but relatively disappointing — can’t pull off the movie’s delicate balance of broad humor and po-faced drama. Read full review
60
Time OutAlex GodfreyMar 6, 2020
There’s righteous fury here, and while Winterbottom and Coogan’s sincerity isn’t in doubt, it feels like they’re coasting a bit. There are laughs, but no surprises and not much heart. They have no love for this guy, but as a result, we’re left with something a little one-dimensional. Read full review
60
The Irish TimesDonald ClarkeFeb 27, 2020
We should celebrate Winterbottom’s determination to get these points made in a mainstream entertainment. Greed is good enough (sorry). But we still deserve something better. Read full review
60
The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeFeb 26, 2020
As rambunctiously entertaining as it is crude. Read full review
60
CineVueTom DugginsFeb 26, 2020
Conceived as a biting commentary on inequality, sweatshop labour and…well, greed, the film lacks fluency and laughs, rarely managing to lands its many upward punches. Read full review
60
EmpireNick de SemlyenFeb 20, 2020
Like Maximus, the hero who inspires the theme of its pivotal party, Greed will keep you entertained. But patchiness and occasional preachiness mar a clearly heartfelt message movie. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawSep 11, 2019
Greed isn’t especially penetrating about money or power. ... Winterbottom chucks everything up to and including the kitchen sink into this movie: sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeSep 11, 2019
It's a wobbly but amusing pic that only really raises eyebrows at the end. Read full review
58
IndieWireDavid EhrlichSep 11, 2019
A serrated but superficial portrait of how capitalism distances the rich from its consequences, Michael Winterbottom’s damning sendup is often right on the money, but its broadside attacks on the ultra-rich are too obvious to draw any blood or raise our hackles. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenMar 4, 2020
Despite the bright spots of humor provided by the film’s game actors, Greed chintzes on unexpected barbs. Its satire hits every target but the film never aims at anything that doesn’t already have a giant target on its back. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperMar 4, 2020
Michael Winterbottom (“The Claim,” “24 Hour Party People,” “Code 46”) is a wonderfully gifted and versatile director, so it comes as no small surprise Greed is such a thudding. one-note takedown of a fictional avaricious fashion mogul. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleMar 4, 2020
At times, the story seems like a side-show, and at other times, the serious information just seems discordant. However, to the movie’s credit, none of it is boring. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreFeb 28, 2020
Coogan is game and Fisher strikes the right tone. But there’s so much bad behavior to “expose” and complain about that there’s no room for fun. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubVikram MurthiFeb 26, 2020
Greed fails because it’s overstuffed with subplots and organized via a maddening time-hopping structure. Read full review
50
VarietyPeter DebrugeFeb 25, 2020
The emperor is naked, Greed wants us to realize, but unless we agree to radically rethink our own wardrobes, does it make any difference? Read full review
50
Rolling StoneDavid FearFeb 25, 2020
You’re left to wonder whether you’ve watched a freshman college course with laughs, or a failed comedy with a lecture surgically grafted on to it. Read full review
45
Paste MagazineAndrew CrumpApr 9, 2020
As Greed’s concentration vacillates, it dilutes both Coogan’s portrait of McCreadie and the impact of its own contempt. Read full review
40
Film ThreatAlan NgFeb 29, 2020
The messaging in Greed does nothing but preach to the choir and keeps us firmly divided in a time where reaching across the aisle would do a helluva lotta good. Read full review
37
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanMar 3, 2020
The comedian’s wryly clownish antics as the preening, not-especially bright owner of several fast-fashion stores are in service of a story that feels sloppy and overly broad. Read full review
25
New York PostJohnny OleksinskiFeb 27, 2020
Coogan and Isla Fisher, as his friendly ex-wife, are well-cast, if too mean and fake. But their comic talents are wasted on Michael Winterbottom’s sorry attempt at a mockumentary. Actually, it’s a bit greedy. Read full review
0
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternFeb 27, 2020
The film isn’t funny at all. It’s so didactic and dislikable that it took me a while to realize humor wasn’t its main goal. Read full review
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