Review: Clooney gets a conscience in 'Money Monster'

George Clooney plays a Jim Cramer-like television personality who's forced to grow a conscience when a disgruntled viewer holds him hostage on live TV in "Money Monster," a serviceable, if slight, real time thriller from director Jodie Foster.

The company's explanation and the narrative in the press is that it was just a computer glitch, but Kyle's not buying it and wants some answers.

Foster, in the director's chair for the fourth time, proves once again to be assured and malleable in this role, ready to proficiently fulfill the needs of any genre with a steady, straightforward style.

"Money Monster" feels like a solid '90s studio thriller in some ways — a movie for adults and made by adults with a crop of charismatic A-listers at the center.

Money Monster," a Sony Pictures release, is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for "language throughout, some sexuality and brief violence.