Where the Money Is Critic Reviews
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The film never drags, but one of the enjoyable things about it is its way of taking its time letting us get to know and savor the characters.Read the full review
A preposterous plot, but it's not about a plot, it's about acting.Read the full review
Coasts to a smooth, frictionless stop, but its star doesn't; he works as if his career depended on this movie.Read the full review
I don't know that Where the Money Is would work at all were it not for what we, the audience, bring into the theater.Read the full review
Easygoing and easy to take, the movie isn't much.Read the full review
A forced, implausible flick that loses its energy as it tries to gain momentum.Read the full review
With Newman, the movie emerges as a lively character piece with flashes of humor and grace.Read the full review
The only way the film could have had a prayer of working--and thereby tapping its stars' considerable strengths--is by taking a much harder edge and going for dark, even bleak humor.Read the full review
The bad news? The story, which rumbles along like an unattended wheelchair on a gently sloping sidewalk.Read the full review
Newman's charismatic, multishaded performance elevates the hodgepodge caper comedy a couple of notches above its preposterous plotting and self-consciously movieish texture.Read the full review
