Inside Job
Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: October 8, 2010 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
88
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Universal acclaim based on 27 Critic Reviews
Positive:
24
Mixed:
2
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
TimeRichard CorlissDec 14, 2010
This is a true-life heist movie, and the thieves not only got away with their billions, they're still doing business. Pay attention and blow a gasket. Read full review
100
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleOct 21, 2010
There's such a thing as smart angry, and such a thing as stupid angry, and after seeing Inside Job, audiences will be smart angry. Read full review
100
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
The result is a masterpiece of investigative nonfiction moviemaking - a scathing, outrageous, depressing, comical, horrifying report on what and who brought on the crisis. Read full review
100
The New YorkerDavid Denby
Many documentaries are good at drawing attention to an outrage and stirring up our feelings. Ferguson's film certainly does this, but his exposition of complex information is also masterly. Indignation is often the most self-deluding of emotions; this movie has the rare gifts of lucid passion Read full review
100
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
Inside Job has the added value, as well as the cold comfort, of being furiously interesting and hugely infuriating. It's a scathing examination of the global economic meltdown that began more than two years ago and continues to affect our lives. Read full review
100
The New York TimesA.O. Scott
Inside Job, a sleek, briskly paced film whose title suggests a heist movie, is the story of a crime without punishment, of an outrage that has so far largely escaped legal sanction and societal stigma. Read full review
100
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
It might well be the most important film you see this year, and the most important documentary of this young century. Read full review
100
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
One of the most fascinating aspects of Inside Job involves the chatty on-camera insights of Kristin Davis, a Wall Street madam, who says the Street operated in a climate of abundant sex and cocaine for valued clients and the traders themselves. Read full review
100
VarietyRob Nelson
Charles Ferguson's sophomore film Inside Job is the definitive screen investigation of the global economic crisis, providing hard evidence of flagrant amorality -- and of a new nonfiction master at work. Read full review
91
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerOct 23, 2010
With scrupulous fairness, Ferguson meticulously lays out for us the whole sordid mess. Read full review
90
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzOct 28, 2010
Scarier than anything you'll find in a horror movie this time of year. Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
After watching Charles Ferguson's powerhouse documentary about the global economic crisis, you will more than understand what went down - you will be thunderstruck and boiling with rage. Read full review
90
New York Magazine (Vulture)David Edelstein
As he proved in his Iraq-centered "No End in Sight," policy wonk turned documentarian Charles Ferguson has no peer when it comes to tracking the course of a preventable catastrophe. Read full review
90
The Hollywood ReporterDuane Byrge
Most impressively, it makes it understandable to those of us who don't know much at all about economics. Read full review
88
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyOct 28, 2010
It is a damning indictment of the individuals and institutions who made money while customers lost their shirts. Read full review
88
Washington PostAnn HornadayOct 21, 2010
If you think you've absorbed all you could about subprime mortgages, credit default swaps and the arcana of elaborate derivatives, think again. Inside Job traces the history of the crisis and its implications with exceptional lucidity, rigor and righteous indignation. Read full review
88
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
Matt Damon narrates, and I do wish the narration didn't end on such a generalized, throw-the-bums-out note, over footage of the Statue of Liberty. Read full review
85
MovielineMichelle Orange
Even more than it wants to inform Inside Job seeks to enrage. Read full review
83
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
From an emotional standpoint, it's enormously satisfying, even cathartic to watch Ferguson "nail" some of the rogues behind the economic crisis with the unseemly zeal of Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report. Read full review
80
EmpireDamon WiseFeb 14, 2011
A sharp study of corporate greed for those who felt Michael Moore pulled too many punches. Read full review
80
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
"American Casino" and Michael Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story" offered more striking images of the human wreckage, but Ferguson is more successful at nailing the perpetrators in New York and their gullible accomplices in Washington. Read full review
80
Village VoiceJ. Hoberman
There's not much sense that the system can be voted out-not least because Barack Obama, shown campaigning on the crisis and elected in part to change the game, recruited his economic advisers from those who enabled the disaster. Read full review
80
New York Daily NewsJoe Neumaier
Ferguson doesn't aim to entertain; he wants answers, and talks to many of the enabling weasels. Read full review
67
Portland OregonianShawn LevyOct 28, 2010
As a film, Inside Job is polished enough, and fueled by piquant indignation, but it's also often scattershot and meandering. Read full review
60
Time OutKeith Uhlich
Our fury is never directed toward concrete solutions, and that allows the guilty parties to slip, perhaps permanently, from our grasp. Read full review
60
Boxoffice MagazineRichard Mowe
Despite the high drama of the financial crisis, this documentary, which is full of talking heads, could have been as dry as a balance sheet. It's quite the reverse: funny, sardonic, investigative and gripping. Read full review
25
New York PostKyle Smith
Name names, please. Or shut up. Read full review
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