"Exhilarating."
— Emily Stewart, Vox
"Any cash and time moviegoers choose to spend on Dumb Money will be well invested, indeed."
— Marah Eakin, Chicago Reader
"Gillespie’s latest is an enraging David vs. Goliath, ripped-from-the-headlines tale that deserves to be seen to be believed."
— Manuel Betancourt, AV Club
"It’s a rare film about digital culture that feels well-modulated, as accessible for those within it as it is for those blissfully unaware."
— Benjamin Lee, Guardian
"Paul Dano excels in this true tale of how little-guy investors took down billionaire Wall Streeters. Call it a slapstick tragedy with a windfall of laughs."
— Peter Travers, ABC News
"With a brisk, biting comic tone and a nice line in righteous anger, Dumb Money skilfully picks up The Big Short’s baton for cinematic-economic takedowns."
— John Nugent, Empire Magazine
"Dumb Money is a sturdy entry into the developing canon of docufiction that seeks to be lively and lucid and informative about the rotten state of the American dream."
— Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair
"The middle-class tensions are impressively stretched to the brink by Dano and Woodley, two committed performers who grip onto the meaning behind the meme-ery."
— Barry Hertz, Globe and Mail
"This energetic, enjoyable movie does not set out to break ground, but in putting centerstage those who are typically left on the sidelines, the movie emerges as a rousing success."
— Natalia Winkelman, indieWire
"Gillespie captures a hot-topic milieu of desperation and excitement populated by schemers. His love of actors is a plus, but his understanding of how they mix foibles, charms, and fears is uncommonly good."
— Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times
"Gillespe has a sure hand with a chaotic story, giving us just enough information to follow what is happening without weighing us down with the details of finance. Writers Schuker Blum and Angelo have a sharp sense for telling detail."
— Nell Minow, Movie Mom
"Gillespie and his movie-star cast aren’t trying to short squeeze the topic for statuettes. They’re just laying out what happened, why it happened, and why it mattered in the most audience-friendly manner imaginable, then take the whole thing to the moon."
— David Fear, Rolling Stone
