‘All About the Money’ Review: Capitalism and Communism Are Strange Bedfellows in a Compelling but Elusive Doc Portrait

Key Highlights

• A former heir to the multibillion Cox Enterprises fortune, since gone rogue with ample millions of his own, the now 40-year-old political activist decided to found and fund a communist collective in rural Massachusetts, offering free accommodation to less fortunate residents aligned with his Marxist-Leminist principles.
• It’s the kind of idealistic vision that can only be more complicated in practice, and so it proves in “All About the Money,” Irish docmaker Sinéad O’Shea’s timely, pointed examination of how capitalist privilege can corrupt even an expressly anti-capitalist project.
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• and Kills It Lady Gaga Pauses Tokyo Concert to Condemn ICE and Support Americans 'Who Are Being Mercilessly Targeted': 'We Need to Get Back to a Place of Safety' Beginning with its introductory title cards reminding us that the combined wealth of America’s richest 1% equals that of its poorest 90%, the economic lessons of “All About the Money” aren’t news to anyone who has been trying to carve out a living in the 21st century.
• But Chambers is a compellingly eccentric figure to build such a study around, at once slippery and transparent in his values and vanity: a self-styled rebel whose often heedless attempts to repudiate his elite heritage only wind up reinforcing the lofty protection that his background still affords him.