60
Uneven as Capital is, unlike so many films about capitalism it’s never boring and is unafraid of its point of view.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
40
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.
70
The Hollywood Reporter by Deborah Young
A film that lingers in the memory in spite of being rather irritating to watch.
42
The A.V. Club by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
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.
80
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.
40
A tacky corporate noir that makes you long for the leanness of Margin Call, or even the clumsy theatrics of Arbitrage.
60
While the film is persuasive and detailed in its depiction of financial corruption, it’s also essentially a two-hour lecture, dry and academic.
63
McClatchy-Tribune News Service by Roger Moore
A mildly entertaining sermon about American “Cowboy Capitalism” as it rubs up against “The French Way.”
63
Slant Magazine by Steve Macfarlane
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.