The limited time given to each of the short films means that there is little opportunity to get really down and dirty with the number-crunching, so that for every aspect that is fascinating there is an attendant frustration.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 16, 2011

A lighthearted plea to the audience to try to think outside the box when it comes to matters of causality.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 7, 2011

A real hodgepodge of ideas and themes, directed by six different directors, it lacks cohesion. It does, however, have some interesting segments.

| Original Score: B | Dec 30, 2010

Moderately interesting documentary.

| Original Score: B- | Dec 9, 2010

Freasonable.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 5, 2010

Levitt and Dubner often talk about the importance of giving incentives to customers. It's not clear if this film gives quite enough of them to those people who've already bought the book.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 2, 2010

Merely proves that a batch of bite-sized featurettes does not automatically add up to a satisfying meal.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 2, 2010

...an enjoyable, lightweight affair that plays like the pilot for a premium cable series - something like a less raucous version of the Penn & Teller's Showtime series

| Original Score: 86/100 | Nov 28, 2010

... somewhere between ... an illustrated, freshman-level lecture by a superstar professor and ... a brainy but popular television anthology show.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 22, 2010

Freakonomics is, much like the book that spawned it, a breezy entertainment that leaves you with a lot to think about.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 20, 2010

On this take from a statistician whose days are, um, numbered: the docu-omnibus engages, as we wonder what the next filmmaker might do. Proving Levitt's theory that incentives do indeed matter.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Oct 15, 2010

If you didn't read the book, you can get a less-satisfying version of it here, but you'd be better off hitting the book. And if you did read the book, the movie is superfluous.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 15, 2010

The film makes some potentially dull material come to life, but it's a tad pleased with itself for delivering that small gift.

| Original Score: B | Oct 14, 2010

When this freakumentary hooks up with Urail King, it gets an A.

| Oct 12, 2010

It's intellectual snack food, satisfying for a little while but always leaving you hungry for more.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 8, 2010

This 93-minute collection of short films finds an innovative way to pursue trivial data. It makes the often vague and elusive subject of economics interesting. It should encourage more viewers to read the book.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 8, 2010

The film is provocative but also scattershot and not nearly as conclusive as it pretends to be.

| Original Score: B- | Oct 8, 2010

Blame producer Chad Troutwine for bringing together an array of talented documentary filmmakers to try to coax life into material certainly not suited to the medium of film.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 7, 2010

An unusual cinematic experiment that comes off as a hit-and-miss collection of appetizers.

| Original Score: C | Oct 4, 2010

A mixed bag...often comes across as simply cute, pushing very hard to too little effect.

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 4, 2010