| 100 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
It’s coolheaded and incisive, a thorough and informative study of corporations, their origins and their place in the modern world.
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| 100 |
Premiere
Glenn Kenny
Over the course of almost two and a half fascinating hours, they make a cogent, compelling, powerful argument, and they also make a terrific movie.
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| 100 |
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Riveting cinematic essay.
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| 90 |
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
Cogent, scary and, at times, sickening.
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| 83 |
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
The Corporation has better manners and a longer fuse than ''Fahrenheit 9/11.'' But the acerbic, sardonically illuminating Canadian documentary shares with its American cousin a certain bleak leftist glee in pursuit of its cause.
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| 80 |
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
The Corporation takes great and successful pains to be as visually diverse and clever as it is intellectually provocative.
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| 80 |
Film Threat
Pete Vonder Haar
Powerful, infuriating, and ultimately sobering. Make an effort to see it.
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| 80 |
Variety
Dennis Harvey
A surprisingly cogent, entertaining, even rabble-rousing indictment of perhaps the most influential institutional model for our era.
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| 80 |
Newsweek
David Ansen
Smart, informative and lively polemic.
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| 80 |
Empire
Dan Jolin
What it covers is so fundamentally relevant, and its polemic so persuasively structured, it’s worth braving the runtime even if it could easily have been more concise.
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| 75 |
Miami Herald
Marta Barber
Takes one side, but it tries to offer hope that change can happen.
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| 75 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
One of the film's cleverest devices is a "Personality Diagnostic Checklist" that equates corporate "serial behaviors" - exploitation, deception, greed, lack of empathy and guilt - with the antisocial makeup of a certifiable psychopath.
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| 75 |
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
At its most effective, the movie is a chastening, sobering, and thorough work of film journalism, however shortsighted.
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| 75 |
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
An impassioned polemic, filled with information sure to break up any dinner-table conversation. Its fault is that of the dinner guest who tells you something fascinating, and then tells you again, and then a third time. At 145 minutes, it overstays its welcome.
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| 75 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Bill White
Too short to tell the whole story. It is, however, a fast-paced, highly enjoyable and provocative introduction.
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| 75 |
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
It's good stuff: a non-fiction film on weighty issues that also manages to entertain.
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| 75 |
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
An informative, amusing and unnerving overview of the history and consequences of corporations.
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| 75 |
New York Post
Megan Lehmann
Delivers its provocative message in the measured tones of a college professor -- yet there's no danger of falling asleep in this lecture.
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| 70 |
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
The filmmakers are pretty nimble at filling the screen with snappy graphics and canny editing to keep you alert and amused.
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| 70 |
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
It's a powerful polemic in its own right, despite some maddeningly glib generalizations, a documentary that functions as a 2½-hour provocation in the ongoing debate about corporate conduct and governance.
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| 70 |
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
A leisurely, never boring, grimly amusing, and not entirely hopeless disquisition on the contemporary world's "dominant institution."
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| 70 |
TV Guide
Ken Fox
Bakan's arguments are buttressed by entertaining clips culled from commercials, industrial films and, appropriately, monster movies.
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| 70 |
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
The Corporation is a dense, complicated and thought-provoking film, but it simplifies its title character.
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| 67 |
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
With an over two-hour running time, these side issues come across as unnecessary weight and threaten to turn off the very viewers the filmmakers worked so hard and so ably to win over in the first place.
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| 60 |
Dallas Observer
Melissa Levine
As a clear, exhaustive and highly intelligent discussion of one of the most pressing issues of our time, it's a success. As a work of documentary, however, it's flawed by its failure to limit its scope (or at least pare down its material), by its strangely stylized narration and by its lack of a story.
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| 60 |
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Nathan Rabin
Without a unifying authorial voice to tie it together, the film often feels shapeless and rambling, brought together by little more than free-ranging contempt for capitalism's excesses.
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| 60 |
The Hollywood Reporter
Richard James Havis
The film will still prove a tonic to those holding left-of-center views.
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| 30 |
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
This is another unhelpful screed, uncontaminated by sense or perspective, that preaches loudly to the choir.
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