turning McConaughey into a wreck through makeup and lighting is not an adequate substitute for character development. But it underscores something that the film gets right - the fact that underneath many pretty surfaces is ugliness
the story, loosely true, tendrils through big ideas about capitalist madness run amok. But Gold wastes 
McConaughey's mania with unconvincing sentimentality
Review rate : B-by Darren Franich[Entertainment Weekly ]
McConaughey tries his best to salvage things, swaggering and slurring and acting like a less-slick version of his "Wolf of Wall Street" character, and he's entertaining up to a point
Gold is fitfully entertaining, but for a movie that gives itself license to go bigger and weirder than real life, its imagination for excess runs out whenever it isn't focused intently on its star
a better title might be "Fool's Gold," but McConaughey already made that movie - wants to strike it rich, but doesn't have the tools. McConaughey does everything he can to make it shine, but the mine is empty