The Founder

Fascinating, subtle film on the machinations of Ray Kroc, the ruthless, insecure man who made a burger joint an empire and sold out its originators.

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Michael Keaton shines in the fast-food business procedural of The Founder.

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John Lee Hancock's knowingly mistitled biopic of McDonald's mogul Ray Kroc proves an unexpectedly piquant moral parable for the Trump era.

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While it’s not necessarily saying a lot, “The Founder” is John Lee Hancock’s best film.

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Certain things get fudged in The Founder, among them Kroc's middle marriage, and director Hancock can't completely resolve the warring strains in what he sees as Kroc's personality. But that's what gives the movie its tension, and it works.

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Michael Keaton has this incredible, I’m-at-the-edge-of-the-abyss look that should be taught as "the hangdog" in drama school.

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'Spotlight' star takes on American hustler/fast-food–franchise visionary Ray Kroc in this remarkably timely drama.

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“The Founder” is mesmerized by its hero, McDonald’s chain founder Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton), but horrified by how he built his empire.

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The world was supposedly a very different place in 1954, when humble milk-shake-mixer salesman Ray Kroc—played by Michael Keaton in The Founder—first strode up to the window of a new kind of drive-in joint in San Bernardino, Calif.

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Like its subject, the man who took McDonald’s from a single burger shop to a globe-straddling child-fattener, John Lee Hancock's The Founder can't stop selling.

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The Founder unwraps a much darker story than anticipated, as Michael Keaton bites into the cut-throat takeover that granted Ray Kroc and the McDonald's brand its infamous reputation.

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And it certainly is dramatic material, but The Founder presents it as a generic “rise to the top” story without even the decency to suggest Kroc lost his soul along the way.

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The details of the story are often fascinating (you’ll learn a lot about burger production), and the cast find plenty of moments to shine.

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In the end, The Founder is little more than a deflating reminder, as if we needed one, that the winner takes all, and integrity isn’t always the key to success.

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Ray remains an unanswered, not especially compelling, question, but Mr. Keaton comes close to making you believe there’s soul to go with the fries and freneticism.

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Michael Keaton stars as Ray Kroc, the entrepreneur who made McDonald’s and fast food ubiquitous.

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Michael Keaton stars as Ray Kroc, the man who helped make McDonald's a billion-dollar brand, in the latest from director John Lee Hancock, maker of 'The Blind Side' and 'Saving Mr. Banks.'

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The tale of how Ray Kroc stole McDonald’s should be trenchant in its corporate satire, but it’s as bland and unchallenging as a Big Mac.

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What’s in a name? Quite a lot if your name is Ray Kroc, who smartly surmised no one would want to buy a burger from a place called Kroc’s.

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Michael Keaton's powerful performance in John Lee Hancock's The Founder is marooned in a wishy-washy story.

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