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  • 2013
  • R
  • Cohen Media Group
  • 1 h 54 m
  • 2013
  • R
  • Cohen Media Group
  • 1 h 54 m

Summary When the CEO of France's Phenix Bank collapses on the golf course, Machiavellian young executive Marc Tourneuil is crowned as his replacement. A whirlwind of ruthless ambition, power struggles, greed and deception ensues as Tourneuil's brutal ascent is jeopardized by a hostile takeover attempt from a large American hedge fund led by Ditt...

Directed By: Costa-Gavras

Written By: Karim Boukercha, Jean-Claude Grumberg, Stéphane Osmont, Costa-Gavras

  • 2013
  • R
  • Cohen Media Group
  • 1 h 54 m
  • 2013
  • R
  • Cohen Media Group
  • 1 h 54 m

Capital

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 18 Critic Reviews
56
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 14 User Ratings
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Summary When the CEO of France's Phenix Bank collapses on the golf course, Machiavellian young executive Marc Tourneuil is crowned as his replacement. A whirlwind of ruthless ambition, power struggles, greed and deception ensues as Tourneuil's brutal ascent is jeopardized by a hostile takeover attempt from a large American hedge fund led by Ditt...

Directed By: Costa-Gavras

Written By: Karim Boukercha, Jean-Claude Grumberg, Stéphane Osmont, Costa-Gavras

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 18 Critic Reviews
56
44% Positive
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44% Mixed
8 Reviews
11% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 18 Critic Reviews
56
44% Positive
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44% Mixed
8 Reviews
11% Negative
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85
Oct 25, 2013
Costa-Gavras' film excels as a meticulously researched procedural that goes deep into the grime of greed, deception and cynical exploitation. But it is also a wickedly clever character analysis of a man more divided against himself than his preternatural calm suggests.
By Ella Taylor FULL REVIEW
75
Oct 4, 2013
Clearly, Costa-Gavras has lost none of his kinetic pacing or his cerebral way with thrills. Unfortunately, the script later gets corrupted itself by a sexual melodrama that lacks both sense and sultriness.
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21% Negative
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63
Oct 23, 2013
Costa-Gavras's new film is more a funhouse-mirror panegyric (albeit on an exhausted topic) than the staid thriller promised by its press materials.
By Steve Macfarlane FULL REVIEW
60
Oct 25, 2013
Sex is plentiful, but the lust is for paydays. This is territory covered far more vibrantly in “Margin Call,” yet director Costa-Gavras (“Z,” “Missing”) still has good, old-fashioned indignation to count on.
By Joe Neumaier FULL REVIEW
60
Oct 21, 2013
While the film is persuasive and detailed in its depiction of financial corruption, it’s also essentially a two-hour lecture, dry and academic.
By Mike D'Angelo FULL REVIEW
40
Oct 22, 2013
Capital ends up being neither a high-stakes thriller nor a cutting commentary on real-world bad behavior. It’s just CEO exotica, all dressed up with nowhere to go.
By David Fear FULL REVIEW
30
Oct 24, 2013
Its indictment of capitalism is so shrill and one-note that it may just as easily set off fits of giggling, because its characters are so ridiculously evil.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
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Production Company K.G. Productions, France 2 Cinéma, Cofinova 8, The Bureau, France Télévisions, Canal+, Ciné+, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)
Release Date Oct 25, 2013
Duration 1 h 54 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline Money is the master.
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Awards

San Sebastián International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Munich Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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