The Benefactor (2015)


A newly married couple are forced to navigate the all-consuming interest of a powerful, mysterious, and possessive philanthropist.

The Benefactor (2015)

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Variety - Unnamed
The movie ends in a more conventional place than the one where it begins, yet it still marks a surprising and graceful first fiction feature for writer-director Andrew Renzi.
60
Screen International - David D'Arcy
The actor’s comic sad clown performance lifts the film above an ordinary script.
58
The A.V. Club - A.A. Dowd
That makes the role well tailored to its occupant: Gere stays within his range of moneyed playboys, while still getting to indulge in the kind of unflattering behavior that a more put-together Richard Gere character would never exhibit.
50
The Hollywood Reporter - John DeFore
Renzi's uneven script makes this a less sturdy vehicle than 2012's Arbitrage, and a less marketable one given the absence of thriller elements that sustained that film's character study. Still, there's plenty here for Gere's admirers to appreciate.
50
The Playlist - Jessica Kiang
It promises a minute character study, but Franny, though embodied by a game Gere who in all fairness does visit places in his performance we have rarely seen him even stop by before, is less a person than a collection of quirks.

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