Film Review - Dumb Money
Paul Dano impresses in Craig Gillespie’s moderately enjoyable dramatisation of the 2021 hedge fund-defying GameStop shares saga
Paul Dano’s characters are invariably creepy, unpleasant, manipulative, cruel and sometimes violent. They typically wind up severely beaten or killed. Think There Will Be Blood (2007), Looper (2012), 12 Years a Slave (2013), Prisoners (2013), and The Batman (2022). Yet there are exceptions to the Dano rule of thumb, and he has a much wider r…
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