Greedy Lying Bastards
One Earth Productions | Release Date: March 8, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
56
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Mixed or average reviews based on 14 Critic Reviews
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Mixed:
6
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2
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawSep 26, 2013
We call our House of Commons proceedings Punch and Judy: but the climate-change deniers on Fox News are Punch on steroids. It's a chilling and depressing picture. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineRob HumanickMar 6, 2013
What Craig Scott Rosebraugh's film lacks in originality, it makes up for in comprehensiveness. Read full review
75
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreMar 2, 2013
What’s fresh here is the tone – rude, blunt and bordering on shrill. This is a less in-your-face Michael Moore-style take on this subject. Read full review
70
VarietyRonnie ScheibMar 8, 2013
Craig Rosebraugh’s docu Greedy, Lying Bastards covers ground well-traveled by environmental exposes from “An Inconvenient Truth” to “The Island President.” Rosebraugh, however, focuses less on the issue of global warming itself and more on the deniers and their big-money backers. Read full review
70
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisMar 7, 2013
Collated for momentum, the film’s many interviews, wide-ranging archival footage and montage of modern ecological disasters form a blunt but carefully positioned instrument. And despite a bit of Michael Moore-style nonsense at the end the tightly edited narrative displays a reach (nine countries) and clarity of composition that hold the attention. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckMar 7, 2013
Filled with devastating statistics documenting the devastating effects of climate change on the planet, the film takes particular aim at CEOs, or “greedy lying bastards,” of the oil and gas corporations which are contributing to the crisis. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinMar 7, 2013
Despite his cogent finger-pointing, nifty graphs and succinct highlighting of recent climate change history, longtime followers of the hyper-partisan topic may not find much terribly new or revealing here. Read full review
60
Arizona RepublicBarbara VanDenburghMar 7, 2013
There’s a lot to be angry about. And though Rosebraugh shines a light on plenty of jaw-dropping corruption, it plays out like a shrill rallying cry without catharsis for the already initiated. Read full review
60
Village VoicePete Vonder HaarMar 5, 2013
It’s too bad that Rosebraugh himself can be so off-putting. The data presented is horrifying enough without sarcastic narration, or his Roger & Me–style pursuit of an interview with ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson. Read full review
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The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyMar 14, 2013
On the downside, Rosebraugh’s own film is too self-righteous and his attempts to play a humour-challenged, lightweight version of Michael Moore in front of the camera is a misfire. The climate-change deniers are comforting, though obviously wrong. Greedy Lying Bastards is grating, even if it’s right. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleDavid LewisMar 7, 2013
Watching the film is like being on a jury in which you know the defendant is probably guilty, but alas, there's not enough evidence to convict. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleLeah ChurnerMar 6, 2013
Rosebraugh’s arguments are sound and his heart is in the right place, but his execution is self-defeating. Read full review
25
New York PostKyle SmithMar 7, 2013
There was a time when the climate-change alarmist movement was like a guy with a megaphone at your ear, but now it’s more like a squirrel at your shoelaces. Read full review
25
Boston GlobeSaul AusterlitzMar 7, 2013
The film’s zippy graphics are a treat, but its zippy arguments are slipshod. Read full review
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