Quartile rating: 7/10 · 1 rating
Kenneth Feinberg, a powerful D.C. lawyer appointed Special Master of the 9/11 Fund, fights off the cynicism, bureaucracy, and politics associated with administering government funds and, in doing so, discovers what life is worth.
Worth is anchored by a strong Michael Keaton performance and a genuinely compelling moral dilemma at its core — how do you assign monetary value to human life? The acting across the board is solid, with Amy Ryan and Stanley Tucci providing strong support. The plot is competent but follows a fairly predictable arc of a cold bureaucrat humanized by grief-stricken families, offering few surprises. Cinematography is functional and unremarkable, typical of prestige TV-adjacent drama — nothing visually distinctive. The film's novelty lies in its specific legal and procedural lens on 9/11 compensation, which is genuinely underexplored territory, though it doesn't fully escape the familiar redemption-through-empathy template. The ending resolves satisfyingly but without particular emotional punch given how much it telegraphs its destination.