Probably one of the most famous arches are the McDonald's sign that adores this hamburger joint. But do let people know the history of how it became such an icon? In Founder, you discover the circumvented route that Mr. Krog took to to make the hamburger an American food staple today. Michael Keaton does a marvelous job bringing to life this hard-working krumugen. Not a typical rags to riches tale but one of hard work and a very competitive work ethic. McDonald's not only changed the food landscape but what we consider is common place today, fast food. I found the movie interesting and entertaining with a little business savvy on the side. Dr Wilson Triviño

Not often does a film protagonist change for the worst, but here the lead character becomes less likeable as the feature progresses - alienating the audience just as he alienates almost everyone else close to him. 'The Founder (2017)' is a well-made, entertaining flick that sheds light on a tragic, frustrating story and makes me simultaneously want to eat a McDonalds but also boycott it due to its rampant commercialism along with it's fraudulent history. It's surprisingly compelling stuff, considering it could have simply played out as an advert for the fast food giant. Choosing the perspective it did was close to genius and makes for an incredibly interesting incarnation of this story. 7/10

THE FOUNDER is a film much like Fincher's THE SOCIAL NETWORK: a business-based biopic that sounds rather dull on the page, but which turns out to be spellbinding when on the screen. It's a tale looking at the inception and growth of McDonald's in the 1950s in the hands of the ruthless salesman Ray Kroc, who saw potential in a small business and made it into the franchise it is today. The film is lengthy but perfectly made with just the right pace, and the acting from the principal players is exemplary: Michael Keaton is fully enjoying his career renaissance and as good as he was in SPOTLIGHT, while John Carroll Lynch brings the same heart to the film as he did to FARGO. As with THE SOCIAL NETWORK, this turns out to be less about business and success than about the human capacity for greed and ruthlessness, and man's ability to step on his fellow man in order to reach the top of the ladder. It's remarkably engaging.

The late Ray Kroc was a selfish, conniving, hard drinking, ruthless jerk. He was also the driving force behind the most successful restaurant franchise in the history of mankind. And what man, or woman, has not partaken in a meal from Kroc's iconic Golden-Arched eateries? If you've never dined at McDonald's you would certainly seem to be among a minority, as 1% of the planet's population feeds from the bistro's menu every single day.Michael Keaton continues his brilliant career resurgence with an Oscar-caliber performance as the enigmatic hamburger king of kings. Keaton succeeds in giving us Kroc's cold-hearted crustiness certainly. But the gifted veteran actor also taps into the mostly hidden heart of this no b.s. global giant of business, as well. For example, while simultaneously stealing the original passion project of the McDonald brothers for his own, Kroc also literally offers them a blank check to do his bidding.While the guy was by and large a total a-hole, it is not made clear in the film why Kroc did not want Ethel (Laura Dern excelling in a typically natural turn), his first wife of three and of nearly 40 years, to benefit at all from the vast and burgeoning McDonalds's empire when the couple divorced in the early 1960's. Ethel is portrayed as a long-suffering supporter of an endless string of her husband's harebrained sales schemes to get rich. And yet in a scene where Kroc has the opportunity to reward his decades-long and dutiful partner he fervidly refuses to do so. Evidently this is a dynamic that Director John Lee Hancock and Writer Robert D. Siegel collectively chose not to explore. And it is particularly puzzling."The Founder" is a rare commodity-a movie that is damn near as educational as it is entertaining. You may come away not necessarily wanting to have learned what a crappy guy the founder of odds are is one of your fave fast food joints was in terms of how he treated too many people. But I'll bet this knowledge doesn't stop you from, at least on occasion, continuing to munch out on a mighty Big Mac. You want fries with that? Don't we all?