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  • 2018
  • R
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 22 m
  • 2018
  • R
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 22 m

Summary From the producers of Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room comes a Wall Street heist story about a still-unfolding financial crime so big, it has the power to affect all of our wallets. Investors on the fringes of the financial world feverishly seek new alternatives for high-return investments in the global markets, and have found a gold...

Directed By: Jed Rothstein

Written By: Jed Rothstein

  • 2018
  • R
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 22 m
  • 2018
  • R
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 22 m

The China Hustle

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
67
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 5 User Ratings
7.2
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Summary From the producers of Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room comes a Wall Street heist story about a still-unfolding financial crime so big, it has the power to affect all of our wallets. Investors on the fringes of the financial world feverishly seek new alternatives for high-return investments in the global markets, and have found a gold...

Directed By: Jed Rothstein

Written By: Jed Rothstein

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Dan David

Self - Co-Founder Geo Investing

Matthew Wiechert

Self - Roth Capital Partners

Herb Greenberg

Self - Financial Journalist

Roddy Boyd

Self - Journalist, Southern Investigative Reporting Foundation

Alexandra Stevenson

Self - Journalist, The New York Times

Byron Roth

Self - CEO, Roth Capital Partners

Wesley Clark

Self - NATO Supreme Allied Commander, Europe

Drew Bernstein

Self - Co-Managing Partner, Marcin Bernstein & Pinchuk LLP

Dune Lawrence

Self - Journalist, Bloomberg News

Carson Block

Self - Founder, Love Box

Richard Teitelbaum

Self - Journalist, The Wall Street Journal

Y.Y. Chan

Self - Professor, Hong Kong University

Punit Renjen

Self - Deloitte Global CEO

James Chanos

Self - Founder, Kynikos Associates LP

Mitch Nussbaum

Self - Managing Partner, Loeb & Loeb

Crocker Coulson

Self - Former President, CCG Investor Relations

Dick Fuld

Self - CEO, Lehman Brothers, 1994-2008

Soren Aandahl

Self - Co-Founder, Glaucus Research Group

Ping Wong

Self - Chairman, Hong Kong Association of China Business

Jon Carnes

Self - 'Alfred Little'

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
67
75% Positive
9 Reviews
25% Mixed
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
67
75% Positive
9 Reviews
25% Mixed
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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90
Mar 19, 2018
Docs like Jed Rothstein's excellent The China Hustle present us with such frequent occasions for outrage that, in the interest of fairness, it's time for a few top documentarians to assemble a five-minute disclaimer to run in front of each new exposé.
By John DeFore FULL REVIEW
78
Apr 18, 2018
The influence of executive producer Alex Gibney is clear in the photography and editing (making Gibney-esque now officially a term of art), but he has his own adept, incisive skill in linking a truly global economic crisis in the making, threading the narrative all the way from rural China to Flint, Michigan.
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75
Mar 28, 2018
A brisk, entertaining documentary that shows how the world of investment works.
By Mick LaSalle FULL REVIEW
70
Mar 29, 2018
[An] accessible, persuasive, often amusing look at how investments in dubious Chinese companies gave way to crisis-level losses for average American stockholders in the wake of the 2008 financial disaster — and beyond — and made some U.S. bankers and lawyers and Chinese executives a bundle.
By Gary Goldstein FULL REVIEW
63
Mar 30, 2018
The China Hustle is not interested in offering a crumb of hope, thereby enabling the frustration it will inevitably arouse in viewers to dissolve into apathy once the credits roll.
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60
Mar 29, 2018
Rothstein’s film, for the most part, is more well-reported exposé than it is cliché-driven agitprop, a film that blows the whistle on ongoing financial crimes.
By Alan Scherstuhl FULL REVIEW
50
Mar 28, 2018
It’s a mildly engrossing if wonky exercise in what could be called a kind of selfish activism.
By Michael O'Sullivan FULL REVIEW

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7.2
60% Positive
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40% Mixed
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Production Company 2929 Productions, Jigsaw Productions, S. J. Gibson Films, The Kennedy/Marshall Company
Release Date Mar 30, 2018
Duration 1 h 22 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline It's Time to Look at Your Investments
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Awards

Hamptons International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
CPH:DOX
• 1 Nomination
Golden Trailer Awards
• 1 Nomination

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