Wall Street

"Gordon Gekko is a good character. (...) Wall Street isn't a movie to make one think. It simply confirms what we all know we should think, while giving us a tantalizing, Sidney Sheldon-like peek into the boardrooms and bedrooms of the rich and powerful." 

"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. (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)" 

"Stone and Weiser keep much of this entertaining with rapid-fire ticker-tape dialogue and brisk pacing (...) The sensibility of this movie is so adolescent that it's hard to take it as seriously as the filmmakers intend us to." 

"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. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4) 

"'Wall Street' remains one of Stone's most tolerable efforts, because in its heavy-handed way, it's still strongly attuned to the period's material excesses" 

"An entertaining morality play full of flaws, flair and finger-wagging. With its posturing politics and cardboard characterizations, 'Wall Street' is not up to the director's past standards" 

"'Wall Street' is still a wildly entertaining and incisive look at the greed and excess of the era."