Chasing Madoff is eye-opening. But it doesn't give us a look at what we'd all really like: Madoff's mind.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 8, 2019

Chasing Madoff takes ninety-one minutes and delivers nothing more than what it hopes to pass off as the story of an unsung, working-class hero.

| Aug 21, 2018

A moving documentary about the power of a handful of individuals and Adam Smith's fabulous theory about the invisible hand of the market, putting them in their place. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 17, 2018

Eventually it starts to feel like a parody of an Errol Morris film.

Full Review | May 3, 2015

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 22, 2013

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 22, 2013

When the officials getting paid to do the job failed miserably in their duties, it was the crazy guy who stood as the public's last and only line of defense

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 1, 2012

The heat is always on, the volume consistently turned all the way up, the whole thing a pile of more, more, more when a whole lot of less, less, less would have been far more effective.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 27, 2012

Prosserman wisely skirts the esoterica of high finance, though he cleverly uses good visual devices to suggest the shocking scope of Madoff's crimes.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 15, 2011

Well constructed but standard-brand "outrage doc."

| Sep 12, 2011

If you're wondering why so many people are cynical about Wall Street, the government and the system in general, "Chasing Madoff" tells you.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 8, 2011

If you want a factual primer on Madoff's crimes, you should look elsewhere. But as a portrait of an unusual man, 'Chasing Madoff' is flawed but fascinating.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 8, 2011

Chasing Madoff argues that Bernie Madoff was more typical of systemic abuses than deviant.

| Sep 8, 2011

The film may leave some viewers even more confused about the Madoff affair than they were in the first place.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 2, 2011

Viewers get very little about Madoff himself. While the film is primarily about Markopolos, it makes little sense without much insight into his nemesis.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 1, 2011

A profile of Ponzi-scheme whistle-blowers who tried, for a decade, to interest the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in Bernie Madoff's transparent and ruinous fraud scheme.

| Original Score: B | Sep 1, 2011

"Chasing Madoff" is not a very good documentary, but it's a very devastating one.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 1, 2011

The hero has a colorless, off-rhythm voice, dead eyes, disorderly hair. He's not, we gather, an imaginative man, but, a religious Greek Orthodox and a former Army officer, he's propelled by a strong sense of rectitude, an ethos of duty.

| Aug 30, 2011

A terrible documentary that has sheds very little on the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme scandal.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 29, 2011

Markopolos goes on and on. . to seem monomaniacal. . . that any rational major investor should have suspected [but] he deserves his victory lap.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Aug 27, 2011