‘All About the Money’ Review: Capitalism and Communism Are Strange Bedfellows in a Compelling but Elusive Doc Portrait
Variety | 02.02.2026 21:02
As ways to spend an indecent amount of money go, James “Fergie” Cox Chambers Jr. hit on a pretty decent-sounding one. A former heir to the multibillion Cox Enterprises fortune, since gone rogue with ample millions of his own, the now 40-year-old political activist decided to found and fund a communist collective in rural Massachusetts, offering free accommodation to less fortunate residents aligned with his Marxist-Leminist principles. It’s the kind of idealistic vision that can only be more complicated in practice, and so it proves in “All About the Money,” Irish docmaker Sinéad O’Shea’s timely, pointed examination of how capitalist privilege can corrupt even an expressly anti-capitalist project.