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Capital

Capital

Drama · Thriller · 2012

The head of a giant European investment bank desperately clings to power when an American hedge fund company tries to buy them out.

Movie details

Capital

2012 Drama · Thriller 1h 54m

Critical arithmetic

The consensus, allegedly.

IMDb

6.5 / 10

5.7K votes

Rotten Tomatoes

56 %

Tomatometer

Metacritic

56 / 100

Metascore

TMDB

6.2 / 10

Community rating

External scores via OMDb · CC BY-NC 4.0. Values normalized for display; availability varies by title.

The head of a giant European investment bank desperately clings to power when an American hedge fund company tries to buy them out.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.

The archetype split

Who fights over Capital?

The split comes from the same five-axis model used by the test, not audience ratings or review sentiment.

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Costa-Gavras

Written by

Costa-Gavras · Karim Boukercha · Jean-Claude Grumberg

Gad Elmaleh

Gad Elmaleh

Marc Tourneuil

Natacha Régnier

Natacha Régnier

Diane Tourneuil

Gabriel Byrne

Gabriel Byrne

Dittmar Rigule

Bernard Le Coq

Bernard Le Coq

Antoine de Suze

Liya Kebede

Liya Kebede

Nassim

Céline Sallette

Céline Sallette

Maud Baron

Hippolyte Girardot

Hippolyte Girardot

Raphaël Sieg

Court is in session

Put Capital on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Arthouse Gremlin

“Ambition earns the room.”

The film reaches for consequence and scale, accepting the risk of seriousness instead of shrinking from it.

The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist

“Importance has entered the chat.”

The production keeps announcing its significance, as though awards-season posture were proof of insight.