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2025,

1h 37m,

Comedy/

Mystery & Thriller

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Blue-collar Midwesterner Mike Alvarado attempts to save his family from the throes of poverty by investing their savings into speculative cryptocurrencies. However, as his investment strategy decays into a full-blown gambling addiction, he sends his life into a nightmarish anxiety-inducing downward spiral, compromising his relationships with his girlfriend, his developmentally disabled brother, and his recovering addict cousin. A twitchy, hyper-contemporary comedy with equal doses of laughs and panic attacks.

Matt Zoller Seitz

RogerEbert.com

Apr 1, 2025

It’s got a knack for cranking up the tension and miserable hilarity, and it captures something true about life in the United States in the first quarter of the 21st century.

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Simon Miraudo

Movie Squad (RTRFM 92.1)

Jul 10, 2026

4.5/5

A truly special comedy that is both hilarious and heartbreaking, and one that manages to find (or invent?) a third gear of serene violence by the end. A collision of tones that works in an uncommonly great way.

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Cain Noble-Davies

FILMINK (Australia)

Jun 27, 2026

16.5/20

… as rewarding as it is skin-crawlingly stressful.

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Louisa Moore

Screen Zealots

May 24, 2026

Captures the absurd extremes people reach for when stability feels permanently out of reach.

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Tim Brennan

About Boulder

May 18, 2026

If you like movies like After Hours and Uncut Gems, where an annoying motormouthed protagonist makes a series of increasingly terrible decisions, then you’re going to love $Positions.

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Douglas Davidson

Elements of Madness

May 15, 2026

4/5

... addictions take center stage in a tale that’s cringe-inducing from start to finish as horror upon horror, deprecation upon deprecation, converge upon a most stunning gluttonous egotist whose addiction is investor capitalism.

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Blue-collar Midwesterner Mike Alvarado attempts to save his family from the throes of poverty by investing their savings into speculative cryptocurrencies. However, as his investment strategy decays into a full-blown gambling addiction, he sends his life into a nightmarish anxiety-inducing downward spiral, compromising his relationships with his girlfriend, his developmentally disabled brother, and his recovering addict cousin. A twitchy, hyper-contemporary comedy with equal doses of laughs and panic attacks.

Director: Brandon Daley
Producer: Ben Gojer, Jake Bloom, Brandon Daley
Screenwriter: Brandon Daley
Production Co: Beef Squad
Genre: Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 37m

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