Synopsis
A retail billionaire's 60th birthday party is celebrated in an exclusive hotel on the Greek island of Mykonos.
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Cast
- Steve CooganSir Richard McCreadie
- David MitchellNick
- Isla FisherSamantha McCreadie
- Asa ButterfieldFinn McCreadie
- Sophie CooksonLily McCreadie
- Shirley HendersonMargaret
- Sarah SolemaniMelanie
- Jamie BlackleyYoung Richard McCreadie
- Stephen FrySelf
- Asim ChaudhryFrank the Lion Tamer
Recommendations
- 80
Screen Daily
Winterbottom delivers a heady cocktail of absurdity and profundity, laced with a generous measure of cutting one-liners in a film that builds into a scathing commentary on a world where the rich keep getting richer and the poor are merely collateral damage. - 67
The Film Stage
A film casting stones at excess, Greed is hardly without sin itself. - 63
RogerEbert.com
Greed is never the sum of its best parts since other actors — especially Jamie Blackley, who, playing young McCreadie in a series of flashbacks, is fine but relatively disappointing — can’t pull off the movie’s delicate balance of broad humor and po-faced drama. - 63
Slant Magazine
The film takes occasional stabs at comic grotesquerie, but it’s brought back to earth by an insistent docudrama seriousness. - 60
The Guardian
Greed isn’t especially penetrating about money or power. ... Winterbottom chucks everything up to and including the kitchen sink into this movie: sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
It's a wobbly but amusing pic that only really raises eyebrows at the end. - 60
Empire
Like Maximus, the hero who inspires the theme of its pivotal party, Greed will keep you entertained. But patchiness and occasional preachiness mar a clearly heartfelt message movie. - 58
IndieWire
A serrated but superficial portrait of how capitalism distances the rich from its consequences, Michael Winterbottom’s damning sendup is often right on the money, but its broadside attacks on the ultra-rich are too obvious to draw any blood or raise our hackles.
