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

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

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

"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

Chasing Madoff offers an object lesson in how to turn a potentially rich documentary into a cheap bag of melodramatic tricks.

| Aug 26, 2011

Jazzes up its talking heads with some of the cheesiest re-creations this side of E!'s "Hollywood True Story."

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 26, 2011

A story as compelling as any detective yarn with an arrogant bad guy who could have come right from Hollywood and a real-life hero on his tail.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 26, 2011

Unfortunately, director Jeff Prosserman tries to turn this inherently fascinating tale into the world's most clichd film noir, complete with shadowy re-enactments, painfully literal symbolism, and absurdly ominous score.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 26, 2011

A missed opportunity as both informative reportage on a globally devastating deception and an objective portrait of a difficult man's lonely mission of truth.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 25, 2011

Frustratingly uneven in its presentation.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 25, 2011

All this paranoid flim-flam drains energy away from the staggering, if far less cinematic, fact that Markopolos was ignored, not targeted.

| Aug 25, 2011

The director is Jeff Prosserman, and he appears to be auditioning for some other movie.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 25, 2011

The human element of the film is so weirdly distracting it often deflects from its primary target.

Full Review | Aug 24, 2011

Jeff Prosserman's riveting doc takes a question that haunted the Bernie Madoff scandal - how did he fool everyone for so long? - and answers it with a decisive ''He didn't.''

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 24, 2011

Jeff Prosserman's film paints an arresting portrait of financial corruption so widespread that it infiltrates vast international networks, governmental regulatory bodies, and the U.S. media.

| Aug 23, 2011

Laying out the means by which Harry Markopolos exposed Bernie Madoff isn't enough for Jeff Prosserman, who spends inordinate energy deifying Markopolos.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 21, 2011