Critic Reviews

• Keith Uhlich, Time Out New York

  This is a completely unenlightening cri de coeur against the most obvious targets of financial-spiritual discontent.

• A.O. Scott, New York Times

  Both bitter and delicious.

• Chris Packham, Village Voice

  Is there such a thing as "tastefully smutty"? Director Im Sang-soo's moody and semi-Shakespearian The Taste of Money walks that line with some artfully lit humping and cross-generational seduction.

• Geoff Andrew, Time Out

  As the sexual, financial and criminal shenanigans get ever more complicated, absurd and melodramatic, the film becomes increasingly tiresome; it's not even possible to enjoy its excesses in a 'so bad it's good' way.

• Maggie Lee, Variety

  A trite and tangled potboiler that, despite its polemical pretensions, is just a glorified Korean domestic drama with classier couture and shapelier champagne flutes.

• Chris Barsanti, PopMatters

  The story bounces about in a fashion that's as chaotic as the film's visuals are placid, suffused with sumptuous malice.

• Todd Jorgenson, Cinemalogue.com

  It's a feast for the eyes that starves the brain, filled with unsympathetic characters and clichés straight out of Wall Street and other corporate thrillers.

• Andrew Schenker, Slant Magazine

  For all the revelations about the way the rich operate, there's little juicy pleasure to be had in the proceedings.

• Dan Fainaru, Screen International

  There is no real story to tell here, just a bunch of old fashioned, tired clichés spiced with references to various sensational front-page scandals, all of it reprocessed to look like an original script.

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