Excerpt: Il film crolla miseramente proprio alla fine, lasciando solo il ricordo di quelle esecuzioni forzate, di quelle umiliazioni ripetute di persone che si sono fidate della parola data e delle loro possibilità.
Excerpt: A hard-hitting morality play about foreclosures, the pursuit of wealth, and the courage it takes to do the right thing.
Excerpt: 99 Homes is a timely topical drama that packs real punch the deeper it goes into the rabbit hole of lawless capitalization on destroyed lives.
Excerpt: 99 Homes is a broad take on a specific kind of soulless opportunism.
Excerpt: In this fiery film about men who repossess foreclosed homes, writer-director Ramin Bahrani dissects the American dream, looking at why we cling to it, how it fails us, how it’s changing, and why that’s frightening.
Excerpt: Andrew Garfield and Michael Shannon portray the human and often painful side of what happens when the economy fails. 99 Homes is the intimate side to an epic saga.
Excerpt: Co-writer/ director Ramin Bahrani does for the real estate market what ‘Wall Street’ did for greed-fueled stock brokers. It’s chilling and highly charged.
Excerpt: Thrillingly urgent and plausible as a Faustian morality thriller, “99 Homes” is like a shakingly relevant horror film of today’s economy and unfortunate housing crisis.
Excerpt: It’s fun and compelling to watch a relatively realistic portrayal of a scumbag and even more fun to see the youthful proletarian slide into the same shoes. Alas, where can a story like this really go, though?
Excerpt: Our culture turned 99 Homes’s greed-driven villain into who he is, and it can do the same to us if we’re not careful.
Excerpt: 99 Homes’s fundamental schematics and overly neat symmetries aren’t a dealbreaker. Bahrani’s talent for orchestrating sequences of tightly wound tension is in full bloom here, as is his complementary knack for quieter grace notes.
Excerpt: The film hums with suspense, tautly directed for maximum discomfort by Ramin Bahrani (Goodbye Solo) and powerfully acted, especially by Shannon, who gives his ruthless villain a strangely tender touch.
Excerpt: it’s one of the first and only movies that takes a real look into the recent housing crash, exposing more than a few real-life horrors on its way to conceiving manufactured drama.
Excerpt: Dramatically it’s a deck as stacked as the one that unscrupulous bankers and realtors dealt to the borrowers who lost everything.