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Capital(Le Capital)

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France · 2012
Rated R · 1h 54m
Director Costa-Gavras
Starring Gad Elmaleh, Natacha Régnier, Gabriel Byrne, Bernard Le Coq
Genre Drama

In this tale of greed and deception, a money-hungry executive is appointed CEO of a large European bank. He quickly makes enemies of his fellow executives as he seizes total control of the company, growing more and more powerful by the day. His rise to the top is threatened when a corrupt American hedge fund tries to buy them out.

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60

Salon by

Uneven as Capital is, unlike so many films about capitalism it’s never boring and is unafraid of its point of view.

40

Time Out by David Fear

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.

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

Variety by Joe Leydon

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

Village Voice by Jon Frosch

A tacky corporate noir that makes you long for the leanness of Margin Call, or even the clumsy theatrics of Arbitrage.

60

The Dissolve by Mike D'Angelo

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

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.

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