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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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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 Jun 24
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. Go to Full Review
Chris Bennion Daily Telegraph (UK) Jun 5
4/5
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. Go to Full Review
David Bianculli NPR Jun 4
Mountainhead, like its quartet of central characters, is extremely unpredictable and very, very rich. Go to Full Review
Barbara Ellen Observer (UK) Oct 8
At its best, it delivers robust dissections of big ego masquerading as big humanity, of the philosophy-washing (“creative destruction”) of big-bucks greed and immorality. Go to Full Review
Asia Frey Lagniappe (Mobile, AL) Sep 26
B
This film is another stone-cold tour de force from Jesse Armstrong, who spent four seasons of “Succession” on the privileged lives of some truly unlikable people. It’s hilarious and harrowing and not entirely pleasant. Go to Full Review
John Stark Mac the Movie Guy Sep 7
56/100
These four are too close in personality, which is a shame. If this was a series we could work and pull these characters apart, but as a feature Armstrong doesn’t seem to know how to do that. Go to Full Review
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Charlie D @cdcdcdcd818181 3d This movie STUNK! I get that it’s a satire of the uber wealthy tech guys but it lacked any and all nuance and was not funny at all. The only humor was overdoing the stereotypes of these people which has been done way better elsewhere (Silicon Valley, even the office or parks n rec). Feels like it was written by a college student. The plot is basically these rich dudes talk for 2 hours while civilization collapses because civilians can’t understand that AI videos could be fake and they start rioting and going to war while these guys just hang out in a mansion. It wasn’t believable at all. There was one point in the middle of the movie I did have some hope that it might redeem itself. It was when they were talking about taking over the world and then the water cut off. I thought “oh this could be funny they don’t realize how much they rely on civilization and when the water and power goes out they go crazy with infighting and struggle to survive and whatnot” but nope that didn’t affect the plot at all. Instead one of the guys didn’t want to make a deal with the other three, so they decide to kill him. Then when they ultimately don’t kill him he’s like “oh just another Tuesday with my friends the psychopaths!” And brushes it off like it’s nothing and he goes home. Just an all around bad movie. Don’t watch it See more stephen b Jan 5 It's hard to make something so absurdly creative with so few characters isolated to pretty much a single location. See more Sameer S @Ss492 Dec 30 This is exactly as bad as it looks. They do get some credit for using a good deal of buzzwords and all the ones I caught were used properly in context. See more Pedro A Dec 28 Ok, esta película es muuy buena. La película solo la vi porque sale Cory Michael Smith, el mejor Riddler (Gotham), peroooo fue genial!!! Logró mantener muy bien mi atención, incluso en la primera mitad de la película que se le puede llamar lenta, pero interesante. El tramo final fue muy divertido, los personajes están bien logrados y son interesantes. Hace reflexionar y, en su segundo tramo, es graciosa. Muy recomendable para ver algo diferente. Creo que esta película se apreciará más con los años!! El final me dejó extrañado y espero una secuelaa!! Bravo, hbo 🗿🇨🇱 Mi única crítica es que a veces los personajes son demasiado groseros a mi parecer, sobre todo para una película PG-13. Hay comentarios que son R. See more Arthur R Dec 15 It has some sporadic amusements, but the satire simply doesn't land most of the time. It feels like a screenwriter with an axe to grind and therefore makes the characters one-dimensional and not too bright. Its just a poorly written script See more Andrei D Dec 11 It should have been a little darker but it hits all the right notes and shows how effective satire can be See more 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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