Worth

Name: Worth
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Released: September 3, 2021
Duration: 118 min
Rating: 67
Cast: Alfredo Narciso, Amy Ryan, Ato Blankson-Wood, Carolyn Mignini, Chris Tardio

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Netflix | Release Date: September 3, 2021 | PG-13

Starring: Alfredo Narciso, Amy Ryan, Ato Blankson-Wood, Carolyn Mignini, Chris Tardio, E.R. Ruiz, Laura Benanti, Michael Keaton, Shunori Ramanathan, Stanley Tucci, Talia Balsam, Tate Donovan, Victor Slezak, Wass Stevens, Zuzanna Szadkowski

Summary: Following the horrific 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, Congress appoints attorney and renowned mediator Kenneth Feinberg (Michael Keaton) to lead the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund. Assigned with allocating financial resources to the victims of the tragedy, Feinberg and his firm’s head of operations, CamilleFollowing the horrific 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, Congress appoints attorney and renowned mediator Kenneth Feinberg (Michael Keaton) to lead the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund. Assigned with allocating financial resources to the victims of the tragedy, Feinberg and his firm’s head of operations, Camille Biros (Amy Ryan), face the impossible task of determining the worth of a life to help the families who had suffered incalculable losses. When Feinberg locks horns with Charles Wolf (Stanley Tucci), a community organizer mourning the death of his wife, his initial cynicism turns to compassion as he begins to learn the true human costs of the tragedy.… Expand

Director: Sara Colangelo

Genre(s): Biography, Drama, History

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 118 min

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IndieWire Kate Erbland

Jan 28, 2020

While Worth is most literally concerned with a stupefying question — what is a life worth? — it’s more precisely about the price of calculating such a wrenching ask. Read full review

Ben Kenigsberg

Sep 2, 2021

For all the ways in which it might give short shrift to the politics or policy of the fund, Worth is uncommonly moving by the standards of biopics and certainly by the standards of movies that risk addressing 9/11 so overtly. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Matt Zoller Seitz

Sep 7, 2021

Worth seems to get it, all of it, in a way that films of this type rarely do, which makes it all the more irritating when it appears to retreat from the implications of the way it's telling its complex narrative. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Sep 5, 2021

Sad to say that adults in positions of authority acting like adults — diplomatic, courteous — is the most refreshing historical artifact resurrected in Worth. Read full review

Sarah Bea Milner

Sep 3, 2021

Had its story structure been stronger, Worth could have an Oscar contender. As it is, Worth is an interesting testament to a particularly harrowing period of time — one that, for many, still feels a little too raw. Read full review

Jacob Oller

Sep 7, 2021

A story that could truly individualize a massive, era-defining tragedy. In this telling, however, you’ll follow the plot and shed some appropriate tears, but if you come away feeling cheap, you won’t be alone. Read full review

Amy Nicholson

Jan 28, 2020

Though Feinberg is a singular figure in modern American history (few else could, or would, do his job), Worth hammers his story into a standard biopic template — Grinch Finds Heart — as though one man discovering empathy is truly priceless. Read full review

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alejandro970

Sep 17, 2021

La tragedia del 11 de septiembre ahora como la base de un dilema moral, sobre si es correcto valuar las pérdidas humanas como si fueran objetos y el cómo hacerlo y ayudar a las familias en luto mas por compasión que por lucro. El mayor acierto es un Michael Keaton cada vez más maduro.

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syhuff

Sep 7, 2021

Good-1) Michael Keaton-good accent, good character work all around. Love the scene where the camera focuses on his face for about 2 minutes, and he pretty subtly gives you the measure of all his thoughts from a series of uncomfortable micro expressions.
2) Script-it must have been reallyGood-1) Michael Keaton-good accent, good character work all around. Love the scene where the camera focuses on his face for about 2 minutes, and he pretty subtly gives you the measure of all his thoughts from a series of uncomfortable micro expressions.
2) Script-it must have been really hard to construct a compelling narrative from what seems like just a bunch of bureaucratic decision making. I’m guessing they made a lot of stuff up in terms of interactions between the lawyers and the survivors, but they did a good job of it. Some cliche driven scenes, but could be worse.
3) Michael Keaton and Stanley Tucci- these guys are so good together and at their respective character types that, just as in “Spotlight”, they should become the Crosby and Hope of procedural investigation films.
4) The scene where they show 9/11 happening from the perspective of Feinberg’s (Keaton) morning commute. Bad-1) So I’m sure the team working on the compensation fund was probably huge, with too many characters to develop if you want a cohesive story. And maybe the group was also originally super white,super male and super old. I don’t know. But when adapting true life material, if you’re going to add second tier characters that have to carry the burden of all your inclusion, please give them something to **** do and say. And if the original team was not super male white and old there’s even less excuse.

2) Feinberg’s wife was so great in her first scene, and then by mid way through the movie she doesn’t even get to sit next to him at the opera.

3) More Stanley Tucci please. Always more Stanley Tucci.… Expand

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JLuis_001

Sep 16, 2021

''A flat fee would be another option
The same dollar value for every loss of life.
But those towers had CEO's and janitors. They won't all say yes to the same number. '' So even when they died exactly the same, their lives still have a different monetary value? Where some see lives, others''A flat fee would be another option
The same dollar value for every loss of life.
But those towers had CEO's and janitors.
They won't all say yes to the same number. ''

So even when they died exactly the same, their lives still have a different monetary value?
Where some see lives, others just see numbers.

Worth is a film that's certainly trying to make something clear, or really just to make a point.
The subject demands to be critical, although perhaps it will depend on the viewers to have a preconceived idea about how it should be considering the story it's treating.

The problem, regardless of the dramatic quality, is that instead of looking to make it incisive, the narrative gets lost in stretches because of the tiresome folly of loading the subject matter with melodrama, which inevitably detracts from what should be a more genuine emotional response.
Needless to say, for that reason this film never progresses from being a completely basic drama.

Among the latest Netflix releases, this movie can be considered quite decent. Anchored with a good performance from Michael Keaton, it's a good option. Just don't expect anything great.… Expand

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Iamcritical86

Sep 5, 2021

Fine performances by Keaton and Tucci, although for what it's "worth", the film itself was a bit of a slouch. While the film fairs well in capturing a true story, it fails to remain interesting and even the slightest bit intense, which was somewhat disappointing for such a powerful story.Fine performances by Keaton and Tucci, although for what it's "worth", the film itself was a bit of a slouch. While the film fairs well in capturing a true story, it fails to remain interesting and even the slightest bit intense, which was somewhat disappointing for such a powerful story. Sadly, I found it to be a bit of a drag.… Expand

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everett

Sep 5, 2021

With material like this, what a shame to see it vastly underserved by a workmanlike script. Scenes written in cliches wasted opportunities to deliver these characters' stories with the specificity and power they deserved. What a disappointment, seeing this particular story manage to drag!With material like this, what a shame to see it vastly underserved by a workmanlike script. Scenes written in cliches wasted opportunities to deliver these characters' stories with the specificity and power they deserved. What a disappointment, seeing this particular story manage to drag! Editing would have helped, but the script was too by-the-numbers to salvage this waste of such fine acting and (of course) material. (It even managed to muddy the waters re: our understanding of the terms re: "worth" that were eventually left to one scene, a good one but it couldn't clarify more than one aspect.)… Expand

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Mauro_Lanari

Sep 14, 2021

(Mauro Lanari)
The movie revolves around a "formula" to compensate victims of 9/11: empathy vs. maths, humanity vs. economics. However, much more is missing than someone and something: Sara Colangelo never expands the issue, not even for a hint, to the value of the other cosmic entities(Mauro Lanari)
The movie revolves around a "formula" to compensate victims of 9/11: empathy vs. maths, humanity vs. economics. However, much more is missing than someone and something: Sara Colangelo never expands the issue, not even for a hint, to the value of the other cosmic entities (already only for paleoanthropologists, an estimate 120 billion human beings).… Expand

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MetacriticOnur

Sep 3, 2021

bad
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adjective, worse, worst;(Slang) bad·der, bad·dest for 36.
not good in any manner or degree.

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