Synopsis
Kenny Wells, a modern-day prospector, hustler, and dreamer, is desperate for a lucky break. Left with few options, Wells teams up with an equally luckless geologist to execute a grandiose, last-ditch effort: to find gold deep in the uncharted jungle of Indonesia.
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Cast
- Matthew McConaugheyKenny Wells
- Bryce Dallas HowardKay
- Edgar RamírezMichael Acosta
- Timothy SimonsJackson
- Michael LandesBinkert
- Stacy KeachClive Coleman
- Rachael TaylorRachel Hill
- Bruce GreenwoodMark Hancock
- Craig T. NelsonKenny Wells
- Corey StollBrian Woolf
Recommendations
- 75
TheWrap
It’s a movie that both understands the basic desire to strike it rich and our deep understanding that one person’s wealth often comes at the expense of another person’s well-being. This isn’t a perfect movie, but it’s admirable for its ability to keep more than one thought in its head at a time. - 70
Variety
Directed with an odd mix of human compassion and giddy abandon by Stephen Gaghan (“Syriana”), Gold is a lively portrayal of what’s often misidentified as the American Dream, but might be more accurately described as the American Fantasy — where men dream of wealth and success without having to put in the work. - 70
Screen Daily
A bravura performance from Matthew McConaughey as a schlubby, roguish mineral prospector in desperate pursuit of the American Dream is the seam that gives Gold its value. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
As robust as the lead performance is, though, the movie around it, directed by Stephen Gaghan from a screenplay by Patrick Massett and John Zinman, too often feels serviceable rather than inspired. - 58
The A.V. Club
Gold is fitfully entertaining, but for a movie that gives itself license to go bigger and weirder than real life, its imagination for excess runs out whenever it isn’t focused intently on its star. - 42
IndieWire
Over time, Gold becomes nothing more than a masterclass in watching a great actor try to build a fortune out of dirt. - 40
The Guardian
There’s not much that glitters in Gold, a lackluster caper that proves that even the priciest ore can bore. - 38
Slant Magazine
The film finds no treasure of gleaming originality in its energetically told but crushingly clichéd anti-capitalist parable.
