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

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

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

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

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

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

The lesson of this story: if enough money is involved, greed trumps morality.

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

The film doesn't come to life until too late in the game, when it takes the original tack of exploring the housing crisis through abandoned backyard swimming pools...

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Sep 3, 2009

This authoritative, far-reaching documentary by veteran investigative journalists Leslie and Andrew Cockburn comes off as curiously bloodless.

| Sep 1, 2009

The Cockburns have finally made a movie about a nuclear disaster that actually happened -- their subject is the social ecology of financial meltdown.

| Aug 31, 2009

The film is designed for the public, but because it's made up of interviews with financial insiders -- and financial insiders talk like experts, not like high school economics teachers -- some of this information may be difficult for lay people to follow.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 21, 2009

A revelatory howl against the still-gestating, $8 trillion-and-counting financial-services industry bailout, American Casino follows the money that changed hands, or account columns, at every step of the subprime home-loan scam.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 3, 2009

A documentary so timely, it feels like they finished cutting it last night.

| May 2, 2009

The pic never completely escapes a smallscreen feel, however cogent the material.

| May 1, 2009