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Greed

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United Kingdom · 2020
Rated R · 1h 40m
Director Michael Winterbottom
Starring Steve Coogan, David Mitchell, Isla Fisher, Asa Butterfield
Genre Comedy, Drama

This satire tells the story of Richard McCreadie, an extremely rich retail business owner who rose to wealth through unethical means. After a damaging investigation, McCreadie attempts to help his reputation by hosting a lavish birthday party on the Greek island of Mykonos, which proves to be unexpectedly difficult.

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Screen Daily by Allan Hunter

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.

58

IndieWire by David Ehrlich

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.

50

Rolling Stone by David Fear

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.

60

Empire by Nick de Semlyen

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.

60

The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw

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.

50

Variety by Peter Debruge

The emperor is naked, Greed wants us to realize, but unless we agree to radically rethink our own wardrobes, does it make any difference?

63

RogerEbert.com by Simon Abrams

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.

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