Where the Money Is
USA Films | Release Date: April 14, 2000 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
49
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 31 Critic Reviews
Positive:
12
Mixed:
14
Negative:
5

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
A preposterous plot, but it's not about a plot, it's about acting. Read full review
75
Baltimore SunAnn Hornaday
It's just another modest, unsurprising little heist flick. So why is it so much fun? Newman. Read full review
75
Portland OregonianShawn Levy
A light, old-fashioned, likable film that capitalizes on the personae of its three key performers and a sort of playfulness. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeJay Carr
The film never drags, but one of the enjoyable things about it is its way of taking its time letting us get to know and savor the characters. Read full review
75
New York PostLou Lumenick
The Coen brothers might have done something inspired with this, but director Kanievska... turns out a more modestly entertaining little low-budget movie. Read full review
70
The New York TimesA.O. Scott
Coasts to a smooth, frictionless stop, but its star doesn't; he works as if his career depended on this movie. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
I don't know that Where the Money Is would work at all were it not for what we, the audience, bring into the theater. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
Ultimately a fluffy bit of caper-noir, the success of Where the Money Is rests heavily with Old Blue Eyes. Read full review
63
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
Maybe this is a case of too many cooks spoiling a simple broth: The movie had four producers, five executive producers, three writers (credited ones, anyhow) and three editors. Read full review
63
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
The film makers are so anxious to please their audience that they turn the last act into a preposterous cat-and-mouse game that nullifies the integrity of the story. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
A wildly improbable story that neither Newman nor co-stars Fiorentino and Mulroney, for all their panache and chemistry, can make much sense of it. Read full review
63
USA TodayStaff [Not Credited]
Easygoing and easy to take, the movie isn't much. Read full review
60
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
There's a caper and there are some laughs, but this isn't a larky caper flick; it's a pulpy little story that could at any minute go straight to hell. Read full review
60
L.A. WeeklyF. X. Feeney
The romance and sheer fun that Where the Money Is packs into its swift 89 minutes follow from the sweet surprise that neither is threatened by the other. Read full review
58
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
It's a lifeless little caper piece that never develops the magic and intellectual fascination it needs to bond with an audience. Read full review
52
Mr. ShowbizRichard T. Jameson
Hazards nothing to speak of and asks chiefly to be congratulated for its modesty. Read full review
50
Film.comRobert Horton
There's very little here that rises above the level of a competent straight-to-video picture, except that whenever Paul Newman and Linda Fiorentino are onscreen together they create something special. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerDesmond Ryan
Leaves you in no doubt of where the talent is in what would otherwise be a throwaway picture. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChroniclePeter Stack
A forced, implausible flick that loses its energy as it tries to gain momentum. Read full review
50
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
Newman's magnetic face isn't enough to raise this intermittently amusing thriller above the ordinary caper-comedy crowd. Read full review
50
Rolling StonePeter Travers
With Newman, the movie emerges as a lively character piece with flashes of humor and grace.
50
San Francisco ExaminerCraig Marine
If you haven't taken your mother to a movie in a while, this is the ticket, with its PG-13 rating, lack of violence and like that. Read full review
50
Film.comJohn Hartl
Utterly lacks the spark that makes caper movies fun. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
The only way the film could have had a prayer of working--and thereby tapping its stars' considerable strengths--is by taking a much harder edge and going for dark, even bleak humor. Read full review
40
Washington PostMichael O'Sullivan
The bad news? The story, which rumbles along like an unattended wheelchair on a gently sloping sidewalk. Read full review
40
SalonCharles Taylor
Lacks any layers beyond its own amiable inconsequentiality. It needs the spark of the distinctively American slapstick craziness that has distinguished Frye's previous work. Read full review
38
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
The unrelentingly dull Where the Money Is tests his (Newman's) legendary charisma in a way no actor could overcome. Read full review
30
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
This caper movie starts off as enjoyable guff before turning strictly formulaic and winding up as unenjoyable guff. Read full review
30
Village VoiceAmy Taubin
A caper film hardly worthy of his (Newman's) presence. Read full review
30
Dallas ObserverAndy Klein
Slips by quickly enough, but it never engages our interest more than passingly. Read full review
20
VarietyTodd McCarthy
Newman's charismatic, multishaded performance elevates the hodgepodge caper comedy a couple of notches above its preposterous plotting and self-consciously movieish texture. Read full review
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