Brad of The Daily Rotation wrote, "The stock market crash highlighted the corruption on Wall Street and the kind of men who would mortgage the future on risky bets and investments. Men like Robert Miller (Richard Gere), a billionaire exec with all the bourgeois accessories that come with being a powerful man: a mistress, fancy cars , vacation homes, and more money than he can ever possibly spend."
Nicholas of Movies Hate You Too writes:
August hasn’t been a great month for Netflix Streaming. Notable new releases are sparse and there are few catalog titles to get really excited about. With that said, even though there aren’t a lot of them there are some really good films to check out plus new seasons of some of TV’s best shows.
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Richard Gere has a margin call to make in this melodrama about a Wall Street hedge-funder trying to offload his debt-ridden house of cards before the buyer realises the sums don’t add up.
Games Fiends writes:
"Arbitrage stands proudly and deservedly at the top of its class. A genuinely mature, thrilling, powerful movie which is expertly and remarkably delivered by a first time director, it’s possibly the best film of 2013 so far."
