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By Amy Nicholson (961) for MTV (492) on 19 Jan 2017

We’re stuck with Hancock’s vanilla saga about a soulless businessman who failed until he won big, a story that might have worked in the…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 19 Jan 2017

Like Apple founder Steve Jobs, Kroc – who died in 1984 – had a genius for marketing the talent of others. Is that a lesser gift…

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By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 19 Jan 2017

The Founder, John Lee Hancock’s film about Ray Kroc, is kind of a mess, which makes it perfect for the current political climate…

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By Chris Barsanti (896) for PopMatters (2,617) on 19 Jan 2017

For this surprisingly hard-edged biopic on the businessman behind McDonald's, Michael Keaton unfurls the black flag of unrepentant capitalism…

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By Tasha Robinson (753) for The Verge (432) on 19 Jan 2017

The Founder’s biggest strength is that it doesn’t lose the story or the characters in the larger metaphor about the gap between creation…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 19 Jan 2017

Certain things get fudged in The Founder, among them Kroc's middle marriage, and director Hancock can't completely resolve the warring strains…

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By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for New York Times (5,786) on 19 Jan 2017

Ray remains an unanswered, not especially compelling, question, but Mr…

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By Matt Zoller Seitz (637) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 19 Jan 2017

Had The Founder focused solely on Kroc’s relationship with the McDonald brothers, it might have been one of the great intimate, sour character…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 19 Jan 2017

The Founder is a solid, smart, worthwhile film and the only remaining mystery is why the Weinstein Company is burying it with a quiet January…

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By Moira Macdonald (1,892) for Seattle Times (3,524) on 18 Jan 2017

The details of the story are often fascinating (you’ll learn a lot about burger production), and the cast find plenty of moments to shine…

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By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 18 Jan 2017

This film's Kroc is basically a shark from the get-go, but Keaton refuses to turn him into a mere villainous caricature…

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By Mike Mcgranaghan (1,821) for Aisle Seat (1,783) on 18 Jan 2017

A funny and insightful film. The story of how McDonalds became McDONALDS is enough to make you never want to eat at McDonalds again…

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By Luke Y. Thompson (1,447) for Forbes (586) on 18 Jan 2017

an enormously entertaining film about two essential Americana ingredients: hamburgers and capitalism…

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By Kyle Smith (1,916) for New York Post (6,650) on 18 Jan 2017

It’s too bad that Keaton plays Kroc as a grasping, alcoholic sleaze as he builds the McDonald’s brand into an all-American empire, but…

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By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 18 Jan 2017

Hancock swallows Kroc's story whole, seeing it as an inspirational tale of gumption and determination, which makes Keaton's typically nuanced…

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By Julie Washington (75) for Cleveland Plain Dealer (828) on 18 Jan 2017

Is it possible to be ethical and win at business? Were the McDonald brothers too stuck in the past to succeed…

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By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 18 Jan 2017

When cheesy music and sun-dappled shots are applied to a character as Machiavellian as Ray Kroc, the result is a poison pen letter sneaked…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 18 Jan 2017

Keaton is fun to watch — fun and a little bit eerie. He plays Ray as all drive and no soul…

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By Tirdad Derakhshani (358) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 18 Jan 2017

Michael Keaton has this incredible, I’m-at-the-edge-of-the-abyss look that should be taught as the hangdog in drama school…

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By Dan Schindel (235) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 18 Jan 2017

A generic rise to the top story without even the decency to suggest Kroc lost his soul along the way…

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