MAYER WAKEFIELD is entertained but let down by an audacious production that, sadly, doesn't ring true
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MARIA DUARTE is left in high spirits by a film that charts an extraordinary case of the poor beating the rich at their own game
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MARY CONWAY is disappointed by drama that, despite accomplished performances, cannot overcome an unfocused script
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KEN COCKBURN traces the one original language – that of the Yamnaya pastoral nomads – from which all European and Indian languages derive
PAUL DONOVAN is fascinated by the debunking of the iconic British war hero
ALEX HALL recommends a searing panorama of our global predicament
Dumb Money (15)
Directed by Craig Gillespie
BASED on the insane true story of how ordinary people turned the tables on Wall Street during the pandemic by making a packet as they transformed GameStop — the video game retailer — into a hot stock investment phenomenon.
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