Is Dumb Money, Craig Gillespie’s retelling of the GameStop meme stock saga, the first Pete Davidson role that works in its entirety? Its premiere at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival suggests it is.
About the 2021 GameStop stock surge, director Craig Gillespie’s pry-your-eyelids-open drama "Dumb Money" at the Toronto International Film Festival is two hours of drudgery and rattled-off money lingo that acts like it’s “All The President’s Men” when it’s really a bargain-bin “Social Network.”
A lot of the young men who became stock traders in the 1980s saw themselves as rebels. With their Porsches and drugs and (by the decade’s end) their idolization of Gordon Gekko, they put the kill into making a killing. They were the new swingers of greed. Of course, they weren’t really rebels, but it …