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Film Review - Dumb Money

Film Review - Dumb Money

Paul Dano impresses in Craig Gillespie’s moderately enjoyable dramatisation of the 2021 hedge fund-defying GameStop shares saga

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Oct 16, 2023
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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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