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By Matthew Pejkovic (770) for Matt's Movie Reviews (913) on 21 Dec 2016

An infectiously entertaining performance from Michael Keaton highlights a true-life story about business at its most ruthless and entrepreneurship…

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By Tom Huddleston (600) for Time Out (7,510) on 20 Dec 2016

Like the product that inspired it, The Founder is tasty enough while it lasts but never quite fills you up…

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By Jesse Hassenger (800) for AV Club (2,778) on 12 Dec 2016

Hancock is not the ideal fit for the queasy mix of fascination, sympathy, and discomfort that Siegel brought to movies like The Wrestler and…

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By Doris Toumarkine (464) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 09 Dec 2016

This only-in-America tale is a cinematic Big Mac of classy, easily digestible entertainment, topped by Michael Keaton's thrilling performance…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for IndieWire (3,631) on 07 Dec 2016

If The Founder comes up short of providing a satisfactory dramatization of its main storyline, at least it peels back the veil with sufficient…

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By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 07 Dec 2016

Though Michael Keaton plays the corrupt Ray Kroc who cheated the McDonald's founders out of a fortune, you can't help siding with this otherwise…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 07 Dec 2016

[Hancock] turns the unlikely subject of a fast-food chain into a quasi-religious satire, a parable of American striving and, ultimately, a…

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By Elise Nakhnikian (118) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 Dec 2016

Michael Keaton's powerful performance in The Founder is marooned in a wishy-washy story…

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By Matt Singer (625) for ScreenCrush (954) on 07 Dec 2016

This movie offers very few insights, and has no apparent point beyond mythologizing the early days of a company that doesn’t exactly need…

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By Damien Straker (239) for Impulse Gamer (252) on 06 Dec 2016

The Founder is an interesting story that focuses on the wrong person…

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By David 'Mad Dog' Bradley (480) for Adelaide Review (243) on 30 Nov 2016

[Keaton] holds the whole thing together and sees you (mostly) past the obvious fictionalisation and creeping Americana…

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By David Stratton (799) for The Australian (781) on 29 Nov 2016

Keaton is superb in this role, convincingly repulsive as the conscience-free go-getter who thinks nothing of betraying his professional and…

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By Russell Baillie (91) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 29 Nov 2016

It's a bland movie that becomes less great American business saga, more mildly engaging, mildly uncomplimentary Kroc biopic…

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By Leigh Paatsch (1,103) for Herald Sun (Australia) (1,081) on 29 Nov 2016

Keaton's work is a everything a great performance should be…

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By Alonso Duralde (1,351) for TheWrap (3,203) on 29 Nov 2016

The Founder never steps up to become the biting satire of American capitalism it so begs to be…

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By Tom Glasson (221) for Concrete Playground (635) on 23 Nov 2016

A fascinating study of the man who turned a small-scale hamburger joint into a $62 billion empire…

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By Fionnuala Halligan (367) for Screen International (2,241) on 22 Nov 2016

The extent of Kroc’s greed is The Founder’s unique playing card, and John Lee Hancock delivers it with a depressingly special sauce…

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By Liam Maguren (146) for Flicks.co.nz (982) on 22 Nov 2016

Michael Keaton slides into the role of Kroc like a greasy weasel, wriggling through the world of business with a slimy smile and a sober slur…

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By Wenlei Ma (213) for News.com.au (213) on 22 Nov 2016

The Founder isn't just about one man's vision, it's also about that gung-ho American ethos that says everything is possible, as long as you're…

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By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 21 Nov 2016

Keaton plays Kroc as a man both pathetic and singularly possessed, cannily resisting lovability at every turn, while delivering the internalized…

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