Mountainhead

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Mountainhead

2025

1h 49m

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Drama

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A group of billionaire friends get together against the backdrop of a rolling international crisis.

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Critics Consensus

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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Esther Zuckerman

Bloomberg News

There’s an immediacy to Armstrong’s satire that’s almost impulsive. But the anger that spurred Mountainhead’s creation is also its best quality. Armstrong is pissed off and has decided to channel that into brutal jokes.

Jun 24, 2025

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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

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David Bianculli

NPR

Mountainhead, like its quartet of central characters, is extremely unpredictable and very, very rich.

Jun 4, 2025

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David Walsh

World Socialist Web Site

At a certain point, the four characters consider using their military and technological powers to overthrow the US government, which is not doubt actively considered among these fascistic layers in real life.

Rated: 2/4

Jul 18, 2025

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Alise Chaffins

MacGuffin or Meaning (Substack)

The role of billionaires on the global stage has become far more topical recently...Mountainhead does an excellent job of reminding us that these are still just insecure men who don’t know how to start a fire.

Rated: 4/5

Jul 15, 2025

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Siddhant Adlakha

IGN Movies

Political comic strips have more spine (and finesse) than Mountainhead, in which three tech bros discuss the end of the world while a fourth wags his finger.

Rated: 5/10

Jul 8, 2025

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Jason G

I made an account just so I could give this movie a bad rating. It is a horrible movie that tries hard to be “philosophical” but is just boring and trite. Nothing happens and there is no plot. Wish I could have my time back. 0/5.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

07/28/25

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C O.

if i could give 0 I would!

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

07/27/25

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A T

If someone tells you they love this movie, they definitely mine bitcoin.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

07/21/25

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Lynn M

Thanks, HBO—welcome back not just in title but in spirit. Darkly hilarious hits like Mountainhead are exactly the kind of content that made us miss you in the first place. Ignore the negative reviews. They’re from narrow-minded low-IQ people who don't get the message, bots paid to discredit it, or folks who’ve simply never been in the room of real power. Mountainhead is a wickedly smart, darkly hilarious satire about what happens when tech billionaires stop pretending they don’t run the world. It blends philosophy, economics, and geopolitics with humor so dry it almost feels like a threat. One of the funniest early moments? The President calls. One guy asks, “Should I prepare to talk to him?” The other just says, “Nah. He’s just a dude.” Later, they casually debate whether to run a coup in the U.S., the West, or China. “Whichever’s easiest.” And from the midpoint on, it gets even funnier and darker. (Spoiler alert): there’s a scene where they discuss using their “petroleum insurance policy” as leverage to take over their friend’s AI company—while he’s locked in a sauna. It’s corporate hostage-taking rebranded as casual banter. The production is stripped down—one house, a few cars, no cinematic distractions. Just sharp acting and dialogue that feels disturbingly close to reality. Mountainhead isn’t satire for laughs. It’s satire for anyone paying attention.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

07/20/25

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James S

Concept had great potential, but I kept waiting for a payoff that never came. A collection of great talent in front of and behind the camera; unfortunately it results in something less than the sum of its parts.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

07/18/25

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Roman K

One of the least compelling, most drawn out excuses of a film I've ever seen.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

07/15/25

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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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