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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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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 Full Review 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 Charlotte Simmons The Treatment (Substack) With distance, I can shrug off the emotional shock of Mountainhead’s way-too-close-to-home satire and eagerly sink my teeth into the way it frames this whole ordeal with both the theory and the practical realities of games. Aug 6, 2025 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review Read all reviews

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inta k Such a stupid movie. I can imagine rich people being weirdos but at some point it just became absurd, especially when they attempted the murder. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 08/28/25 Full Review C B This was difficult to finish. All I could think was “I hope they don’t really talk like this or we are all doomed”. I feel like this made tech bros sound like completely delusional, removed from reality idiots. I mean, these were the stupidest conversations I’ve ever heard. The jokes fell flat for me and if this was born of any kind of insider knowledge….they must be dumb as rocks. As was the end. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 08/25/25 Full Review Nataliia O I love this kind of movies! An interesting satire with hints that link characters to real world tech billionaires Rated 5 out of 5 stars 08/24/25 Full Review RaShelle R. This was one of the worst movies I have ever seen. I can’t believe I made it to the end. It seemed thrown together over a weekend. Bad plot. The only cool thing about the movie was the house! Rated 1 out of 5 stars 08/23/25 Full Review Audience Member Terrible characters, plot, dialogue and pathetic attempts at comedy make for a garbage movie, which this is. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 08/20/25 Full Review Brad C. Loved it. A dark comedy, almost like a stage play—set mostly in one place, with wretched characters on display. A sharp, funny jab at our billionaire overlords and their massive egos. I’m honestly surprised by all the negative reviews, since it was something different from the usual blockbuster action movie attempts… Rated 4 out of 5 stars 08/20/25 Full Review Read all reviews
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Jesse Armstrong

Director

Steve Carell

Randall

Cory Michael Smith

Venis

Andrew Daly

Casper

Jason Schwartzman

Hugo Van Yalk

Ramy Youssef

Jeff

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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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