Gold (II)

Matthew McConaughey becomes both a rich and a poor man in Gold.

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Actor deep-dives into role as a modern prospector who strikes it rich – and almost saves this uneven Capitalism-run-amuck drama.

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Matthew McConaughey can’t save this pretentious anti-Wall Street film.

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In an adventure drama inspired by true events, Matthew McConaughey and Edgar Ramirez star as business partners whose underdog mining enterprise puts them on the high-finance map.

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One must feel for McConaughey. The actor suffers the indignity of playing repulsive on the inside and outside with nothing to show for it.

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What we once called the McConaissance rode on the man playing a string of desperate, wily figures, perhaps best exemplified by the role that won him an Oscar.

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Nothing in Gold is quite golden, though at least Matthew McConaughey — with a lack of hair and an abundance of beer gut — shines.

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What profiteth it a man if he should gain the whole world, but lose his hairline? Matthew McConaughey considers the question in “Gold,” which is in essence a vanity project about a vanity project.

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[McConaughey's] wild, abrasive and improbably delicate performance is what makes Gold watchable, even if the rest of the movie doesn’t supply sufficient reason to keep watching.

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"Gold" is the latest in a subgenre of films that seems to think that the sight of men moving gigantic amounts of money around electronically—and sometimes just stealing it, or having it stolen from them—is innately fascinating.

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For a story about such high-stakes gambles, Gold takes few of its own. Robert Elswit’s cinematography is lovely, and McConaughey is a hoot to watch, but Ramírez is a dull foil for McConaughey’s fantasist.

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The film that results is at once panicky and abstruse, and we are left with little more than the delirious shine of McConaughey’s eyes and the preacherly rapture in his voice.

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The most ironic thing about Gold is this: For all its efforts, the movie seems to know it’s sitting on a gold mine of a backstory, but it just can’t figure out how to get the stuff out of the ground.

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Matthew McConaughey stars as a prospector bent on finding gold in the Indonesian jungle.

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An allegedly true story emerges as a lackluster riff on American Hustle and The Wolf of Wall Street with a scrappy turn from an overly disguised lead star.

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Stephen Gaghan's Gold finds no treasure of gleaming originality in its crushingly clichéd anti-capitalist parable.

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Gold’s value lies chiefly in the hearts and minds of those who seek it.

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