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Mountainhead

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A group of billionaire friends get together against the backdrop of a rolling international crisis.
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Continuing writer-director Jesse Armstrong's sterling streak of skewering the rich and powerful, Mountainhead counterbalances its repellant characters with terrific acting and dialogue.

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Chris Bennion Daily Telegraph (UK) Mountainhead is a caustic, defiant and righteously furious diatribe against the maniacal egos of those with all of the money and all of the power, but no vanishingly little moral fibre – and all wrapped up by the best jokes in the business. Rated: 4/5 Jun 5, 2025 Full Review David Bianculli NPR Mountainhead, like its quartet of central characters, is extremely unpredictable and very, very rich. Jun 4, 2025 Full Review John Anderson Wall Street Journal For all the bright writing and smart performances, who wants to spend this much time with such a repellent collection of characters? It’s a lot of work for a Saturday night. The schadenfreude dividends aren’t high enough. Jun 3, 2025 Full Review Rachel Ho Exclaim! It took me five sittings to get through Mountainhead, and it wasn't for lack of time, but simply sheer boredom. Jun 17, 2025 Full Review Jackie K. Cooper jackiekcooper.com A cold, lifeless boring film, Rated: 3/10 Jun 16, 2025 Full Review Tom Meek Cambridge Day The actors are all in and hit their mark. What doesn’t is the satire that roils in human misery with a nod and a wink at cheekiness so we can walk a mile in the shoes of the rich and famous... Rated: 2/4 Jun 13, 2025 Full Review Read all reviews

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Little M A blunt -and sadly, more realistic than you think - take down of the "Being Rich Must Mean You are a Genius" mentality perverting American Society. Want to know how good the movie is? Look at how many Bot's the tech industry has sent to give this movie a 1-star rating. The tech industry hates this movie so much they've attacked it. Why? Because the truth hurts and they don't like the mirror. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 06/19/25 Full Review Steven V shockingly bad movie. gets worse and worse as it goes. absolute rubbish Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 06/18/25 Full Review Bill C It started out pretty fun with the parody of tech bro jargon and culture, and it seemed like the character interplay might be interesting. I was ready for the satire. Unfortunately it got pretty tedious and never really brought the story full circle, it just felt like a bunch of jerks pretending the world wasn't real that didn't go anywhere interesting. Kind of a waste of talent because even the acting felt really phoned-in by the end. I just didn't care what happened. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 06/18/25 Full Review Livia B Genuinely one of the worst movies I’ve ever watched. Pitiful to throw a handful of amazing actors at a lifeless, try-hard script with all the flaws that the characters have themselves. Literally predicted they would try to kill Jeff minutes in. At the end of the movie absolutely nothing happened. Completely flat and one-dimensional characters—you know it’s bad when you can capture their entire existences in 5 words or less. Wake up, this isn’t a critique of the rich and powerful it’s a failed distraction from the responsibility that governments, not tech bros, have for our future. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 06/18/25 Full Review Aaron B Perfection. I hope that the tech bro jargon turned enough of you off so this movie stays as a classic, in my cult of 1. Please put this movie on a real, vhs, laser disc, and dvd, then place them in every elitists bunker so that I can watch it when the world burns. <3 Rated 5 out of 5 stars 06/18/25 Full Review Eric G Contemptible characters, slow pace, over wrought dialogue, and not a single laugh in the entire "comedy" this movie portrays itself to be. Just like the characters, the writing and plot never get better or deliver. Just a lot of patting on the back, self bloviating nonsense. This is the kind of crap movie people pretend to like to make themselves seem clever or better than the average movie watcher. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 06/17/25 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A group of billionaire friends get together against the backdrop of a rolling international crisis.
Director
Jesse Armstrong
Screenwriter
Jesse Armstrong, Jesse Armstrong
Distributor
HBO Max
Production Co
HBO Films
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
May 31, 2025
Runtime
1h 49m
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