This movie knows what it’s doing. It’s guided by the easy suspense and reliable thrill of betting big and winning.
“Dumb Money” whisks us back to a time in American history, the year 2020, when Keith Gill, a Reddit and YouTube demi-celebrity, cranked up the poor little GameStop stock to improbable heights.
Like “The Big Short,” “Dumb Money” sexes up the money talk where it can. At one point, two of the script’s casual and then obsessive GameStop investors, a pair of Austin, Texas, college students played by Myha’la Herrold and Talia Ryder, discuss the stock’s possibilities while one has her hands down the pants of her lover-to-be. It’s a variation on Margot Robbie’s financial concepts bubble bath seminar in “The Big Short.
There are times when director Craig Gillespie goes for working class solidarity in ways that feel ginned up, generic and unearned. It’ll play differently to different people, of course, but this feels to me like an artful wax job — a true-life fable of extraordinary, Wall Street-rattling luck, nothing less, but also nothing more.
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