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Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
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Metascore
71 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 18 Critics What's this?

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7.5 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 8 Ratings

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  • Summary: Robert Greenwald's documentary WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Price takes you behind the glitz and into the real lives of workers and their families, business owners and their communities, in an extraordinary journey that will challenge the way you think, feel... and shop. (Brave New Films)

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 18
  3. Negative: 1 out of 18
  1. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    91
    Greenwald floats the vital issue of whether Wal-Mart should be restrained by antimonopoly regulations, but his real question is cultural: Even with its rock-bottom prices, is Wal-Mart in the best interest of American consumers?
  2. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Frank Scheck
    60
    Lacks the cinematic panache to elevate it above the level of agitprop. But its all too relevant dissection of its subject is well worth paying attention to.
  3. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    25
    Wal-Mart's home office in Bentonville, Ark., can rest easy: Greenwald, as usual, is hysterically preaching to the choir.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 5
  3. Negative: 1 out of 5
  1. BigTimer
    10
    Excellent insight into powerful corporation that doesn't understand or want to understand "social responsibility" or how to take care of their own.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  2. natep.
    5
    Wow what can i say.... i hated this movie. i might as well go to a trailer park and just scream wal mart sucks, youd get more of a response.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. NeemaS
    2
    Where's the comparisons to other companies? Where's the focus on the consumers that save thousands of dollars each year? Where';s the employees who couldn't get jobs elsewhere? This is a classic mockumentary: political advertisement disguised as real film.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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