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The Banker
Directed by
George Nolfi
PG-13
2020
2h
Drama
,
Biography
7.3
78%
100%
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In the 1960s, two African-American entrepreneurs hire a working-class white man to pretend to be the head of their business empire while they pose as a janitor and chauffeur.
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Cast of The Banker
Anthony Mackie
Bernard Garrett / Producer
Samuel L. Jackson
Joe Morris
Nicholas Hoult
Matt Steiner
Nia Long
Eunice Garrett
Jessie T. Usher
Tony Jackson
Colm Meaney
Patrick Barker
Paul Ben-Victor
Donald Silverthorne
James DuMont
Senator McClellan
Taylor Black
Susie
Gregory Alan Williams
Britton Garrett
Bill Kelly
Charles Renault
Jaylon Gordon
Bernard Jr. (11 Years Old)
Michael Harney
Melvin Belli
David Maldonado
Bank Examiner
Craig Welzbacher
Deputy Comptroller Dunn
Chris Gann
2nd FBI Man
Daniel Johnson
Minister (uncredited)
Scott Johnson
Robert Florance, Jr.
George Nolfi
Director / Writer / Producer
Stan Younger
Writer
Niceole R. Levy
Writer
David Lewis Smith
Writer / Producer
Joel Viertel
Producer
Jonathan Baker
Producer
Nnamdi Asomugha
Producer
Brad Feinstein
Producer
The Banker Ratings & Reviews
KhotsoO
April 24, 2025
Great movie and informative
Troy Waterman
March 19, 2025
Great Movie. Very Interesting and Educational
Movie Mom
Nell Minow
"The Banker," now available on Apple TV+, is three movies in one, all of them vivid, engaging, and compelling.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
[T]he film is overlong, but the story is an eye-opener and the central performances are terrific.
Pajiba
Roxana Hadadi
The Banker is a solidly old-fashioned adaptation of the remarkable true story of some of America's first black bankers.
Associated Press
Lindsey Bahr
Taken on its own, "The Banker" is a pleasant watch. And who wouldn't benefit from a little Mackie and Jackson banter right now?
FilmWeek (LAist)
Christy Lemire
It's a fascinating story... But it is depicted in the most safe, bland, just meh biopic form.
FilmWeek (LAist)
Amy Nicholson
It gets a little weighed down... [But] I admire so much of the early part of the film.
CNN.com
Brian Lowry
Apple has delivered a credible, modestly entertaining entry into the world of prestige film -- but one that won't lose much if written off against the balance sheet of consumers' streaming-TV budgets.
National Newspaper Publishers Association
Dwight Brown
With a fairly sterile story by Brad Kane and a pretty superficial script by writers Niceole R. Levy, Stan Younger and David Lewis Smith, most of the stilted dialogue is bland and cliché.
RogerEbert.com
Monica Castillo
A relatively unknown story told in a very familiar way.
Chicago Reader
Jamie Ludwig
With its look into 20th-century discrimination that still casts a shadow on communities today, and stellar performances from Mackie and Jackson, The Banker is worth watching with the whole family.
Houston Chronicle
Cary Darling
Thanks to the three strong performances at its heart - especially that of a wisecracking Samuel L. Jackson (who's also one of the producers) - "The Banker" often is as entertaining as it is enlightening.
IndieWire
David Ehrlich
As a result of its poor investments, "The Banker" never achieves the cogent moral velocity it needs to sell this story.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
For good stretches, "The Banker" can be as dryly engineered as a loan application, but the galvanizing story it tells - like a last stand of rebel ingenuity before the Fair Housing Act of 1968 made discrimination unlawful - is a solid interest-earner.
Observer
Oliver Jones
Unfortunately, the film is too soft-edged and incurious about the world that forced its story.
Chicago Sun-Times
Richard Roeper
A crackling good, emotionally satisfying, old-fashioned thriller, with readily identifiable heroes and hiss-worthy villains.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
The Banker" is the kind of mainstream, old-fashioned movie that gives middlebrow a good name: It may not be a solid-gold slam-dunk, but it delivers on the audience's investment, with minimum risk and modest interest.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
For a film about the struggles of a black man in America, "The Banker" spends an awful lot of time on a false white front.
TheWrap
William Bibbiani
Relies on tried-and-true, formulaic storytelling beats like training montages, impassioned speeches and, for extended and frustrating periods, focusing on the white guy Garrett and Morris used as their representative in meetings with racist bigwigs.
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