Greed tells the story of self-made British billionaire Sir Richard McCreadie, whose retail empire is in crisis. To save his reputation, he decides to bounce back with a highly publicised and extravagant party celebrating his 60th birthday on the Greek island of Mykonos.
That exhilaratingly prolific film-maker Michael Winterbottom – working with additional material from Sean Gray from The Thick of It – has served up a breezy, funny, unsubtle scattershot satire-melodrama all about the moral squalor of the super-richThe Guardian
If only the comedic touches could attain the Armando Iannucci levels of vitriolic hilarity they’re shooting for, even with Veep writer Sean Gray doing touch-ups.Little White Lies
t’s all distressingly true and well documented. But is it funny? Not so much. And that’s problematic because it’s pitched for laughs.Sight & Sound
