Dumb Money Review Roundup

Hitting theaters on September 29 is Craig Gillespie's Dumb Money, featuring Paul Dano as Keith Gill or "Roaring Kitty" the film follows the true story of everyday people who flipped the script on Wall Street and got rich by turning troubled retailer GameStop into the world's hottest company.

Gillespie is on a hot streak with his work, with his eight-episode limited series Pam & Tommy receiving an Emmy nomination and his last two movies scooping up Oscars; people have been keen to see if he'll hit another win with Dumb Money.

It would appear that critics think so, as the film received a certified fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes with an 86% score from 84 reviews.

Here is what a few of them had to say.

Review roundup

• Los Angeles Times: Gillespie captures a hot-topic milieu of desperation and excitement populated by schemers. His love of actors is a plus, but his understanding of how they mix foibles, charms, and fears is uncommonly good.

• Rolling Stone: Gillespie and his movie-star cast aren't trying to short squeeze the topic for statuettes. They're just laying out what happened, why it happened, and why it mattered in the most audience-friendly manner imaginable, then take the whole thing to the moon.

• New York Magazine/Vulture: The pleasant surprise of Dumb Money is that it's such an effective entertainment, even if it oversells the revolutionary impact of what it's depicting.

• Deadline Hollywood Daily: What a story. What a wildly entertaining, stand-up-and-cheer populist movie. Capra would love it.

• Vanity Fair: Dumb Money is a sturdy entry into the developing canon of docufiction that seeks to be lively and lucid and informative about the rotten state of the American dream.

You can read our review of Dumb Money here.