Like the stock market itself, Craig Gillespie’s film has peaks and valleys. Just don’t buy the dip
, the new comedy chronicling the “GameStonk” phenomenon that rocked Nasdaq in 2021, arrives at the film’s very end. That is when the name “Winklevoss” pops up during the closing credits, with the twin brothers Cameron and Tyler having executive-produced the movie.
But the dastardly plans of the filthy are foiled by a group of amateur working-class investors, rallied by a self-styled market guru named Keith Gill who spreads his gospel via the online forum Reddit. Buying stock through the fledgling, user-friendly app Robinhood, Gill and his acolytes begin to pump up GameStop en masse as a sort of middle-finger gesture to the faceless Gordon Gekkos of the world.
When the film focuses on Gill’s scrappy antics – the low-level financial analyst goes by the Reddit username “Roaring Kitty” – and the mixed feelings he carries about his role in the online war,finds its beating, bleeding heart. The scenes featuring Gill and his endlessly supportive wife Caroline as they debate whether to cash in or keep their movement going contain small, sharp slices of graceful domesticity.
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