[It] has great information but presents it with too much shine and shimmer. It would have been more effective if it just would have presented the facts and lost the video game aesthetic of the statistics within.

| Dec 8, 2020

"How To Make Money" showcases the hypocrisy that drives a situation where politically driven emotion typically trumps common sense.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 3, 2020

The film is often compelling, clever and entertaining, but oddly enough, these strongest moments are revealed in an awkward third act tonal and structural shift to be nothing more than filler.

| Original Score: B- | Nov 3, 2020

The subject matter is not always well served by the hammy, overcooked satirical treatment.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 30, 2013

It becomes a compelling, clear-sighted trip through the jungle; a documentary that rushes us in and then proceeds to point the way out.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2013

Persuasive, possessive and powerful, you'll feel like you've had a shot of nasal gold dust after just five minutes and the highs keep coming.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 27, 2013

Deploys lots of sans serif graphics and handy statistics to explain how people escalate up the drug-dealing ladder.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 26, 2013

Cooke catches our attention with his sardonic, training-handbook tone, which doesn't exclude shock and indignation when needed.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 26, 2013

Stylishly directed and sharply written, this is an entertaining, informative and frequently shocking documentary that reaches a number of depressing conclusions.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 24, 2013

Though over-emphatic, it benefits from great access to concerned celebs, ex-addicts and former dealers, most of whom found addiction at the end of the rainbow.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 23, 2013

This lively and engaging documentary may be set out like an informercial, but it teaches us about the drug trade with a pungent sting in its tail.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 20, 2013

Who knew baby laxative had so many uses?

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 20, 2013

A thoughtful, intelligent examination of the US war on drugs.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 17, 2013

Inventive backgrounder report on the "War on Drugs."

Full Review | Jul 17, 2013

This zippy documentary by Matthew Cooke can't compare to Eugene Jarecki's tragic and masterful The House I Live In (2012).

| Jul 11, 2013

Highly entertaining and informative look at the war on drugs, offers a tongue-in-cheek manual of how to become a cartel leader. But it's not just a glib exercise & confronts the implications of a drug policy that many would agree is a disaster.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 11, 2013

Too cute, but that doesn't make this doc wrong.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 11, 2013

Conclusion of how much time each dealer served and how they successfully beat their addictions is less convincing than their nostalgic remembrances of their bad old days.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jul 4, 2013

When Drugs is firing on all cylinders, it feels as if you're in a room with these people, just listening to one crazy story after another.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 28, 2013

Ultimately, the most frightening lesson the film teaches is just how dysfunctionally impervious to defeat the so-called war on drugs is ...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 28, 2013