Arbitrage Reviews

This isn't very effective as a thriller, though it's a provocative fable about our ambivalent feelings toward financial elites.

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Playing a character that's almost entirely unsympathetic, Gere demonstrates the outward charm that's allowed Miller to accumulate his wealth and status, as well as the abyss-staring soul his showmanship conceals.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

These Wall Street magnates... they're taking their hits as the villains of the day in post-Enron, post-AIG, post-Lehman Brothers, post-Bernie Madoff America. The breed is getting its just condemnations, but...

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Savvy, slick and suspenseful financial thriller.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10

Arbitrage is the latest in a long line of movies with touches of Alfred Hitchcock's DNA. The film reverberates with themes such as deception, ethical ambiguity, and the impact of fate.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

"Arbitrage" is one of those films that doesn't rely on flourish to succeed, and in the end, it's probably better off without it.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

The screenplay, written by first-time director Nicholas Jarecki, keeps us guessing, which is one of the best compliments one can pay to a movie of this sort.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

The latest 'Richard Gere under pressure movie.'

Full Review | Original Score: 6.5 out of 10

Competent, glossy thriller gussies up the familiar and articulately updates to the new Gilded Age. . . but with uncomfortable sympathy for the man at the pinnacle of the 1%.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10

This isn't a film that invites you to identify with its leading character ...

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The best part of Gere's overall "je ne sais quoi" is the fact that the man can act.

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Any cinema venture featuring Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon is sufficient reason to invest a couple of hours.

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Gere's performance never takes the obvious route, but instead parries with self-delusion, noble instincts, and the moxie that made Miller what he is in every sense

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Gere makes Robert's amorality appealing, which in itself conveys Jarecki's message about the seductive nature of Wall Street corruption.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

First-time writer and director Nicholas Jarecki has given Gere a juicy, complex character in billionaire financier Robert Miller, and he just runs with it.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

Tense, taut, suspenseful, and Richard Gere is fabulous.

Full Review | Original Score: A

Gere's very good at making Robert's compromises seem more human than horrid. He portrays the philanthropic, philandering patriarch with his customary twinkle.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Juicy, smart, engrossing financial thriller boasts assets aplenty in its portfolio.

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Straddling the line between celebration and vilification of its nasty protagonist, Arbitrage plunges into the world of corporate fraud with chilly detachment.

Full Review | Original Score: 6.5/10

An elegantly crafted potboiler that fires on all cylinders, giving Gere his juiciest role yet.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10