The China Hustle
Magnolia Pictures | Release Date: March 30, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
67
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
3
Negative:
0
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90
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeMar 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. Read full review
80
VarietyScott TobiasMar 19, 2018
Jed Rothstein’s wildly entertaining documentary The China Hustle blows the lid off another multibillion-dollar heist built on complex financial instruments and a whole lot of smoke and mirrors. Read full review
78
Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerApr 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. Read full review
75
Boston GlobePeter KeoughMar 29, 2018
At a time when financial regulations have been gutted, stock market indexes reel, and trade wars threaten, Jed Rothstein’s slick and revealing documentary The China Hustle should only add to the anxiety and gloom. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleMar 28, 2018
A brisk, entertaining documentary that shows how the world of investment works. Read full review
71
Paste MagazineAndrew CrumpApr 5, 2018
The China Hustle handily clarifies opaque topics and moves like a bullet, but the bullet catches us right in the gut. By the time the film ends you’ll wish you could go back to being ignorant again. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinMar 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. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comTina HassanniaMar 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. Read full review
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Simon HouptMar 29, 2018
In horror movies, monsters often lose their power to terrify once they come fully into the frame. But as Rothstein reveals the full shape and size of an ogre that has slipped into our financial markets, just try to calm your growing dread. Read full review
60
Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlMar 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. Read full review
50
The New York TimesBen KenigsbergMar 29, 2018
In the case of The China Hustle, a documentary may simply be the wrong delivery mechanism for a byzantine exposé that cries out for detailed news reporting. Read full review
50
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanMar 28, 2018
It’s a mildly engrossing if wonky exercise in what could be called a kind of selfish activism. Read full review
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