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The Founder
A ruefully titled biopic of Ray Kroc, the man who didn’t found McDonald’s but ruthlessly made it what it is. It details how Kroc maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.
3 July 1973, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
28 August 1958, Binghampton, New York, USA
1960
27 November 1966, Tampa, Florida, USA
17 September 1981, Van Nuys, California, USA
2 July 1955, Corpus Christi, Texas, USA
25 June 1975, Redwood City, California, USA
April 04, 2017
An entertaining and meritorious point of view on business innovation, personal interest and greed. [Full review in Spanish]
April 03, 2017
It probably would have had more impact if it had been made four or five decades ago, when McDonald's was not yet an icon of "crude mercantilism" feared by its original owners. [Full review in Spanish]
April 17, 2017
The Founder features an engrossing tale of the rise of a fast-food empire, an exceptional cast that's at the top of their game, and a marvelous screenplay that lays out these events in all of their intriguing, gritty detail.
April 04, 2017
A remarkable example that the American dream is sometimes possible, although there must be lies, betrayal, robberies, and some other things on the way. [Full review in Spanish]
January 20, 2017
Keaton is fascinating as Kroc, a bad guy who embodies the American Dream - a man who isn't necessarily the best or most talented but who's willing to step on anyone to get ahead.
April 11, 2017
A twisted guide to learning how capitalism works in its most unbridled variant. [Full review in Spanish]
February 09, 2017
The Founder ends up feeling extremely wishy-washy, unable to scrub the nastiness of Kroc's success but also incapable of confronting it.
January 20, 2017
The Founder remains fascinating largely because Keaton is so good at guile and bile. Not once does he wink at the audience or overplay the obvious.
January 20, 2017
John Lee Hancock serves up a biopic of McDonald's king Ray Kroc that is not unlike the restaurant's product: precisely prepared, brightly packaged, and uncomplicated in its appeal. Or at least, that's how it goes down much of the time.
January 23, 2017
Its omissions and elisions are the result not of natural narrative contours but of open choices, gaping holes, psychological wounds that a filmmaker displays all the more via the elaborate efforts at concealment ...
January 25, 2017
One of the must-see entertainments of the year.
