Critic Reviews

• Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times

  The dull, hectoring financial melodrama "Supercapitalist" has all the spark of a high school assembly skit about not letting friends drive drunk.

• Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle

  Whatever the makers of "$upercapitalist" had in mind, what they've created is a clunky and cliched melodrama set in the world of international high finance.

• Kyle Smith, New York Post

  A Walmart "Wall Street," the hedge-fund drama "Supercapitalist" is junk merchandise stamped "made in China."

• Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times

  Dry as new bank notes and doggedly uncinematic, Simon Yin's "$upercapitalist" approaches the seamy side of international finance with a story as stale as the subprime meltdown.

• Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News

  Filled with enough clichés (finance culture seems to have the same frat-boy DNA the world over, bro) to be broken up and sold in pieces as junk material.

• Andrew Schenker, Time Out New York

  Lensed with a tiresome gloss meant to mimic the seduction of the Asian metropolitan high life and filled with clumsily didactic talking points and inadequate performances ...

• Emily S. Mendel, culturevulture.net

  $upercapitalist" exposes the heady, fast-paced, amoral world of New York/Hong Kong high finance

• Scott Tobias, AV Club

  $upercapitalist seems naïve about both the market and the humans who operate in it.

• Chuck Bowen, Slant Magazine

  Ultimately plodding and resolutely old-fashioned, a corporate thriller for folks too square to indulge the possible existence of hungers so strong they must be satisfied at any cost.

• Harvey S. Karten, Compuserve

  Makes you wonder whether Britain and China were wrong to allow Hong Kong to remain a free-market capitalist province--though the movie does not compare in quality to "Wall Street."

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