MONEY MONSTER:
98 minutes
Friday, June 10 – 7 pm,
Saturday, June 11 – 4 & 8 pm,
Sunday, June 12 – 4 & 8 pm,
Wednesday, June 15 – 7 pm,
and Thursday, June 16 – 7 pm.
Lee Gates (George Clooney) is a bombastic TV personality whose popular financial network show has made him the money wiz of Wall Street. But after he hawks a high tech stock that mysteriously crashes, an irate investor (Jack O’Connell) takes Gates, his crew, and his ace producer Patty Fenn (Julia Roberts) hostage live on air. Unfolding in real time, Gates and Fenn must find a way to keep themselves alive while simultaneously uncovering the truth behind a tangle of big money lies. [Sony]
Insider’s tip: “Cross Dog Day Afternoon with The Big Short and throw in a dash of Network and you’ve got Money Monster, a clever financial thriller with comic overtones that’s a solid investment of your time thanks to stellar work by George Clooney and Julia Roberts” (Lou Lumenick, New York Post). Stephanie Zacharek of Time adds: “Like the provocative classics Dog Day Afternoon and Network, this is discomfiting entertainment – its edges are serrated, sharp enough to cut. The camera moves to just the right place every minute, and the editing is crisp. Moments of nearly unbearable tension are broken by bursts of energy and even humor.”