'99 Homes': Venice Review — hollywoodreporter.com

Carrying a title that implicitly references the 99/1 percent divide so frequently used to describe what ails the country and much of the world, 99 Homes passionately remonstrates against contemporary economic conditions that suggest that, in real life rather than Capraland, Lionel Barrymore's greedy old Mr. Potter in It's a Wonderful Life actually has prevailed over humanity's better instincts. While At Any Price, Ramin Bahrani's previous dramatic look at how tough things have become for so many working Americans, never found its audience, this, his sixth feature, might stand a better shot with the public since it's pointedly designed to make your blood boil. In this it succeeds, partly legitimately and to some degree via ramped-up melodrama and a notably manipulative musical score.

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