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- A ruefully titled biopic of Ray Kroc — the man who didn’t found McDonald’s but ruthlessly made it what it is — John Lee Hancock ‘s glowingly crafted, smartly acted film largely holds the cheese.
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Jan 20, 2017 · “The Founder” is mesmerized by its hero, McDonald’s chain founder Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton), but horrified by how he built his empire. That kind of ambivalence is great; in fact it’s a hallmark of good drama.
Jan 19, 2017 · A cautious revisionist job, “The Founder” tells an old-fashioned sweet-and-sour fable of good American capitalism versus bad, and how Ray Kroc built his fortune by steamrolling Mac and Dick ...
- John Lee Hancock
- 2 min
The Founder: Directed by John Lee Hancock. With Michael Keaton, Nick Offerman, John Carroll Lynch, Linda Cardellini. The story of Ray Kroc, a salesman who turned two brothers' innovative fast food eatery, McDonald's, into the biggest restaurant business in the world, with a combination of ambition, persistence, and ruthlessness.
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- Biography, Drama
- John Lee Hancock
- 2017-01-20
The Founder puts Michael Keaton's magnetic performance at the center of a smart, satisfying biopic that traces the rise of one of America's most influential businessmen -- and the birth of one of...
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- John Lee Hancock
- PG-13
- Michael Keaton
Nov 21, 2016 · The take-no-prisoners extent of Kroc’s ambition is The Founder’s unique playing card, and Hancock delivers it with a depressingly special sauce.
Nov 21, 2016 · By making this ethically challenged man the film’s protagonist, director John Lee Hancock creates something a good shade or two darker than The Blind Side and Saving Mr. Banks, his more...
Jan 20, 2017 · But The Founder, directed by John Lee Hancock (The Blind Side, The Rookie), is more insightful, and more damning, than that: it makes the case that Kroc, after striking a business deal with...
