The Founder (2016)

Like The Social Network, this corporate biopic details the staggering rise and rise of a business - here, McDonalds - and uncannily it too centers on a corporate go-getter whose vision and drive far outstrip those of the founding brothers left watching their own creation run away from them; whatever your thoughts on the golden arches, Michael Keaton's Ray Kroc, with his mad enthusiasm for the speedy kitchen and his simple but ingenious corporate manoeuvres, is so compelling he will have you grinning from ear to ear. 

★★★★☆

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The Social Network (2010)

Today's movie-making machine churns out documentaries long before a controversy is over; movie-versions come out even before books drop off the bestseller list; celebrity biopics precede celebrity deaths; and, in the case of The Social Network, a current event is committed to celluloid history long before it can truly be called history, but against all odds and despite the prematurity of the story, director David Fincher turns his movie depicting the birth of social networking site Facebook into a rivetting drama - a zippy, talky story of three lawsuits that functions as a character study of an apparently deeply unlikeable young Mark Zuckerberg.

★★★★☆

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