Arbitrage
Metascore
73 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 35 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 29 out of 35
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 35
  3. Negative: 1 out of 35
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  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    Sep 12, 2012
    100
    Hitchcock called his most familiar subject "The Innocent Man Wrongly Accused." Jarecki pumps up the pressure here by giving us a Guilty Man Accurately Accused, and that's what makes the film so ingeniously involving.
  2. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    Sep 5, 2012
    91
    The film doesn't turn its issues into a glorified essay, but it does use them to give the audience a vital emotional workout.
  3. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: Bilge Ebiri
    Sep 13, 2012
    90
    Jarecki puts the veteran actor to brilliant use in the insanely gripping Arbitrage.
  4. Rolling Stone
    Reviewed by: Peter Travers
    Sep 13, 2012
    88
    It's instructive to note what a killer actor Richard Gere can be when a movie rises to his level. Arbitrage is such a movie, a sinfully entertaining look at the sins committed in the name of money.
  5. Tampa Bay Times
    Reviewed by: Steve Persall
    Sep 12, 2012
    83
    Arbitrage is a classy soap opera with a charismatic louse at its center, without "Margin Call" didactics, or the misplaced empathy of "The Company Men."

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User Score
6.9 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 55 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 21
  3. Negative: 3 out of 21
  1. hsg9000
    6
    On the positive side, this film has strong acting, stylish directing, impeccable production values. The individual scenes are very well written and the dialog is crisp and authentic. On the negative side, Richard Gere's character has no redeeming value and is hard to embrace as an audience member. He is a man without a shred of moral duty or a sense of right and wrong. So it's difficult to become invested in a character who is so utterly repugnant. He could very well be accurately drawn, but so could a well crafted oil painting of a maggot.… Full Review »
  2. cameronmorewood
    6
    What we have here is Richard Gere being cool and looking stylish is expensive suits. The plot is awfully mundane- and frustratingly morally ambiguous, but the actors are very good here- and more importantly Arbitrage is believable. It doesn't feel like watching a movie.… Full Review »
  3. Seriosity
    7
    Works well in that it makes you root for a completely unsympathetic character. Richard Gere is superb and largely to thank for that. A solid thriller.
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