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By Javier Perez (40) for Cine Premiere (538) on 22 Mar 2017

The film shows Hancock's ability as a filmmaker, although he was fortunate to have an interesting story because he could have done much more…

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By José Martín (128) for El antepenúltimo mohicano (311) on 15 Mar 2017

The founder is a very entertaining biopic that has chosen the path of conventionality and lack of risk to tell a story that is way above the…

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By Luis Martínez (274) for El Mundo (Spain) (301) on 13 Mar 2017

A film that grows when it exposes the imposture of a society that has made trash its reason for being. [Full review in Spanish]…

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By John Serba (472) for MLive.com (475) on 09 Mar 2017

The Founder gives Keaton the kind of arc - a golden arch, you might even say - and character to continue his creative renaissance…

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By Xavi Sánchez Pons (51) for Sensacine (386) on 07 Mar 2017

One of the most accurate and incisive radiographs ever made on cannibal capitalism and, of course, the shadows surrounding the American dream…

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By Edu Galán (8) for Cinemanía (Spain) (558) on 07 Mar 2017

A film that wins because what looks like an entrepreneur's manual ends up being something sinister under a precious name and a precious (and…

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By Richard James Havis (225) for South China Morning Post (665) on 07 Mar 2017

Kroc is a nasty piece of work, but the film's squeaky clean approach often makes him seem like an all-American hero…

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By Alex Casey (54) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 21 Feb 2017

What makes The Founder more than just your average Jobs-style mogul biopic is how it places Michael Keaton's Ray Kroc at the centre of the…

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By Aine O'connor (240) for Sunday Independent (Ireland) (504) on 21 Feb 2017

John Lee Hancock's film is a timely look at a moment in American history…

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By Edward Porter (366) for Sunday Times (UK) (753) on 21 Feb 2017

This biopic, starring Michael Keaton as Kroc, can't reverse that outcome, of course, but it does let Mac and Dick seize something from their…

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By Simran Hans (401) for Observer (UK) (2,398) on 19 Feb 2017

Hancock's bland biopic offers a sanitised and sympathetic take on the burger chain's beginnings and the man who turned it into a multimillion-dollar…

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By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Film Ireland Magazine (354) on 17 Feb 2017

While The Founder follows the usual beats of films depicting the vices of business and wealth, it distinguishes itself through a brilliant final act…

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By Adam Sweeting (122) for The Arts Desk (640) on 17 Feb 2017

Keaton vividly and remorselessly projects obsessiveness, cussedness and raging ambition…

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By Donald Clarke (1,051) for Irish Times (1,391) on 17 Feb 2017

One of the many pleasures in John Lee Hancock's study of the man who made McDonald's an empire is its reminder that even the simplest ideas…

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By Harry Guerin (318) for RTÉ (Ireland) (721) on 17 Feb 2017

The beauty of director John Lee Hancock's film is that you swing between admiration and antipathy [for Kroc] before making your mind up…

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By James Luxford (227) for Radio Times (2,421) on 16 Feb 2017

You may never look at your local fast-food joint the same way again…

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By Ed Potton (195) for Times (UK) (2,458) on 16 Feb 2017

The man, played with dark relish by Michael Keaton, has the fabulous name of Ray Kroc (there is a suitably reptilian air to his grin as he…

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By Geoffrey Macnab (1,253) for Independent (UK) (2,026) on 16 Feb 2017

It is a surprisingly nuanced and barbed look at the American Dream and its flip side…

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By Tim Evans (725) for Sky Movies (33) on 16 Feb 2017

It's a classic story of American corporate steamrollering with the little people flattened on the way to dishonestly-earned but unimaginable…

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By Allan Hunter (1,486) for Daily Express (UK) (2,141) on 16 Feb 2017

It is a cautionary tale handled in a workmanlike fashion but Keaton is sharp and compelling as we watch the rebirth of a salesman…

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