This smart, touching documentary traces the connections between Wall Street's high-flying practices and the countless citizens on Main Street who now face bankruptcy and eviction.

| May 17, 2018

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

The Cockburns paint a picture of a financial world devoid of morality and scruples, a culture in which reckless disregard of reason and caution led to a towering house of cards that could only come crashing down.

| Nov 22, 2009

It's a nightmare that starts like a normal daytime drive and ends in a vortex-like sinkhole.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 13, 2009

As Leslie Cockburn's camera roams the foreclosed rowhouses of Baltimore, their planked-up doors reminiscent of shots from The Wire, I thought: Baltimore needs some good PR.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 5, 2009

Much of the final two-thirds of the documentary can have a 온라인카지노추천 newsmagazine feel: solidly presented, but not shaped to a larger end. As self-righteousness sets in, however justified, so does a certain artistic slackness.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 5, 2009

Putting a face on the incomprehensible figures, the film takes a look at some of the victims, middle-class professionals who bought into the dream of home ownership and lost everything.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 29, 2009

If there's an overarching theme it's that people respond to incentives and so regulation of the financial market is necessary to see that the incentives offered are not perverse.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Oct 24, 2009

It may be a little too Jack Webb for the masses, but there is value to its sober, just-the-facts approach.

| Original Score: B | Oct 2, 2009

The documentary details in no-nonsense, talking-head style how commercial and investment banks moved high-risk mortgages out into the economy, dumping debt and reaping profits in the process.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 1, 2009

A lopsided, visually uninspired film that works best when it eschews the complex numbers-crunching of its financial industry pundits and whistle-blowers to profile the everyday victims of the crisis.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 18, 2009

This film stands as an intimate, terrifying document that renders an incomprehensible slice of recent history in human terms.

Full Review | Sep 18, 2009

The best look to date at the rotten US housing mortgage system that developed over the last ten years. Clear enough to make you cry.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Sep 10, 2009

As the Cockburns interview exterminators and local police about the rats' nests and meth labs that tend to proliferate in foreclosed homes, the corruption metaphor is like something out of a Nathanael West novel.

| Sep 10, 2009

You'll never hear an economist explain derivatives again without thinking of the woman who walks away from the camera, weeping, as her mortgage broker refuses her check, or children's dolls splayed out on the floors of empty homes.

| Sep 7, 2009

Essential viewing for understanding how banks systematically targeted low income groups in over-leveraged mortgage lending practices that led to a catastrophic economic collapse, "American Casino" is still a far from perfect documentary.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 5, 2009

The piece finds a balance between the tearjerkers caught in the crossfire and the reckless bidders who don't seem to feel troubled for the life of excess at the expense of others.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 4, 2009

The movie's lack of Michael Moore-style dynamism has a dulling effect.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 4, 2009

Has the feel of a quickie made-for-온라인카지노추천 doc. It's bare bones ... but timely.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 3, 2009