The Price of Everything

The Price of Everything

Great art. Mad money. No rules.

Directed by Nathaniel Kahn

Produced by HBO Documentary Films, Artemis Rising

201898 min7.1 / 10

A cerebral documentary interrogating the tension between artistic passion and market commodification in contemporary art.

Featuring collectors, dealers, auctioneers and a rich range of artists, including market darlings George Condo, Jeff Koons, Gerhard Richter and Njideka Akunyili Crosby, this documentary examines the role of art and artistic passion in today’s money-driven, consumer-based society.

Questions people ask

  • Is The Price of Everything violent? No. Less violent than 92% of films.

  • Is The Price of Everything scary? Not especially. Less frightening than 65% of films.

  • Is The Price of Everything easy watching? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

  • Is The Price of Everything sad? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

  • Does The Price of Everything end with hope? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

77/ 100

Cinnamon Score

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Rarity95

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Surprise64

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Love72

How much audiences actually like it

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Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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