Wall Street 1987

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: The sensibility of this movie is so adolescent that it's hard to take it as seriously as the filmmakers intend us to. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Wall Street, in large part due to the timing of its release, became more than just a movie. It became a declaration of the moral bankruptcy infiltrating elements of society, and Gekko's words were an ode to that philosophy. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Stone's most impressive achievement in this film is to allow all the financial wheeling and dealing to seem complicated and convincing, and yet always have it make sense. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: Dramatically inept, the film also muddles its naive moralising. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Watching Oliver Stone's Wall Street is about as wordy and dreary as reading the financial papers accounts of the rise and fall of an Ivan Boesky-type arbitrageur. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: In Wall Street...you will see the evil, capitalistic impulses of man. Towards the end, you will see the self-righteous impulses of liberal finger-waggers. It's hard to tell which is worse. Read more

Rita Kempley, Washington Post: With its posturing politics and cardboard characterizations, Wall Street is not up to [Oliver Stone's] past standards. Read more