The documentary gains depth when it dives into the company's search for profit at the workers expense and takes a critical look at the capitalist system. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 19, 2023

I would say it has some political notion and delivers some interesting divisions between the East and the West. Yet it adds very little to the art of making a documentary and at least trying to make it appealing to the eye. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jun 23, 2022

It leaves you reeling from the complex, unresolvable cultural dynamics at play in our present and future globalization.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 22, 2022

It's a fascinating view of consumerism, the American workforce, culture clashes, and how people can connect with each other despite seemingly insurmountable obstacles.

| Dec 29, 2021

Episode 47: Doc Talk Part 3 / Hail Satan? / American Factory / Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese / Honeyland / The Image Book

| Original Score: 76/100 | Oct 18, 2021

A must-see...

| Dec 28, 2020

And, ironically, we wonder which regime is the really socialist one! [Full Review in Spanish]

| Sep 19, 2020

It's sad, bleak, and humiliating.

| Sep 16, 2020

This level of brutal exploitation is once again becoming the norm in the US...

| Aug 6, 2020

This documentary speaks to everyone - those on the factory floor and the CEO ... It shows both sides and lets you make up your own mind.

| Jul 15, 2020

What's remarkable about the American Factory is its reluctance to take sides in this picturesque duel of cultural conquests, and its commitment to exposing the labor exploitation. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 6, 2020

The unflinching examination is a bit of a mirror to the face and a gripping drama of where we are and may be heading.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 27, 2020

The filmmaking does not advocate; it shows, never tells, and poses many more questions than it can answer. Some disturbing realities about the struggle for dignity in work emerge from what we witness.

| Feb 27, 2020

Could not have been more timely.

| Feb 21, 2020

Indeed, race relations seem to be a recurring theme, but one the filmmakers refuse to address head-on.

| Feb 6, 2020

Rarely does a sober, even-keeled reckoning come along to illuminate the human suffering of creative destruction while gently acknowledging that this is the way it has to be. Such a portrayal is American Factory, a heartbreaking Netflix documentary.

| Feb 4, 2020

Billionaire from "communist" China buys former GM plant and pays workers less than what McDonald's pays. Evidence that capitalism victimizes workers across the planet, whatever the ideology.

| Jan 25, 2020

"American Factory" is a disturbing economic exposé about the way we live now, and a cautionary tale about the vanishing middle class.

| Jan 24, 2020

The result is entertaining as hell at points but doesn't condescend either side and, at its best moments, juggles a swath of opinions with equal reason.

| Jan 17, 2020

This consideration of multiple lives, rather than one constructed arc serves to underline the sense that each person is only a small cog turning in the bigger wheel of the machine.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 11, 2020