Dumb Money is a smart, darkly comic retelling of the GameStop short squeeze saga of 2021. Craig Gillespie’s film rips out the sickly, shrivelled heart of American capitalism and parades it around for all to see – only to then change its mind, shove that heart right back into its cavity, and slap a vapid, tech bro-speak Band-Aid over the wound.
It’s a contradiction that is, regrettably, quite easily explained: the movie was executive produced by investor twins Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, of The Social Network fame, who’ve since leaped on to the bitcoin bandwagon as they continue to slather their establishment profiles with the glossy sheen of disruption and subversion. In short, they’re the villains of Dumb Money, yet are convinced they’re the heroes.
