A Decent Factory
First Run Features | Release Date: June 29, 2005 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
54
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
6
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
70
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
This film exposes a more insidious kind of exploitation, one far more difficult to detect. Read full review
70
VarietyRonnie Scheib
Fascinating case study of the moral quagmire of globalism. Read full review
60
Village VoiceMark Peranson
A Decent Factory is just as much about the motives of the people asking the questions as those of the people avoiding the answers. Read full review
60
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
Director Thomas Balmès mostly just tags along for the ride, but the incidental details he picks up taint the sense of guarded hopefulness. Read full review
60
The New RepublicStanley Kauffmann
Why, then, is the picture chilling? Because it is a calm reminder of an inevitability. The sight of long lines of young women doing tiny bits of attachment work or packing hour after hour, day after day, is saddening. Read full review
50
New York PostKyle Smith
Unintentionally funny is still funny, and the documentary A Decent Factory, had me giggling. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
Though it lacks a focus or greater artistic vision, Thomas Balmès' no-frills documentary offers Westerners a valuable glimpse into the sweatshops of the new China. Read full review
40
The New York TimesManohla Dargis
A cursory, irritatingly facile look at the human cost of globalization. Read full review
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