Metacritic Film

Big Buy: Tom DeLay's Stolen Congress, The

MPAA RATING: Not Rated

Brave New Films
Documentary
76 minutes | Color
USA
Released In Theaters May 26, 2006

The Big Buy is a feature length documentary that connects the dots between big money and big government. It's not a pretty picture. (Brave New Films)

DIRECTED BY
Mark Birnbaum
Jim Schermbeck

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

34 / 100

Critic Reviews

50 Village Voice Robert Wilonsky
The filmmakers capture a battle for the soul of a state and country; we're all damned, no matter our choice of red or blue, unless things change sooner than later, says a movie that will divide like nothing since Michael Moore took the nation's temperature.
40 The New York Times Jeannette Catsoulis
As much fun as that is for the choir being preached to, it would have been even more persuasive with a little less hammering and a little more historical perspective.
40 Variety
The title alone should alert auds that The Big Buy: Tom DeLay's Stolen Congress is a hatchet job on the controversial politico known as "The Hammer."
40 The Hollywood Reporter
This less than subtly titled documentary by Mark Birnbaum and Jim Schermbeck will undoubtedly find few viewers.
12 New York Post Kyle Smith
The hero is the Texas prosecutor who won a questionable indictment of DeLay, Ronnie Earle. But he sounds more extreme the more he talks.

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