Maxed Out demonstrates that when shady business dealings create a problem, our success-driven culture will provide a bevy of questionable solutions.

| May 21, 2020

Uma análise detalhada e preocupante sobre a política empregada pelas operadoras de cartões de crédito no intuito de manterem os clientes numa situação de endividamento constante - ou melh... pior: crescente.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 6, 2008

This muckraking documentary on America's personal-debt crisis lays bare the predatory practices of credit card companies and the Bush administration's cozy relationship with the financial services industry.

| Dec 4, 2007

When it comes to credit, it pays to be informed.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 4, 2007

Do not see this film if you worry about money.

| Original Score: 4/6 | Oct 6, 2007

Maxed Out focuses on how much we're in hock without ever really wondering why we need to buy.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 6, 2007

This scattershot exposé of usurious banking practices examines why the most vulnerable segment of society is victimized by the lending industry and finds a simple answer: It's obscenely profitable.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 6, 2007

One of the most effective of the many recent agitprop documentaries.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 27, 2007

The propagandistic Maxed Out is ultimately undermined by the fact that, as vile as many of its corporate interviewees seem, its everyman subjects are often just as culpable in creating and perpetuating the whole mess.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 25, 2007

shines a light on one of the most pervasive (and potentially disastrous) problems affecting our society today

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 17, 2007

[A] dispiriting expose of predatory lending scams that mislead even smart, educated people and a credit-card industry that is designed... to work against the ordinary consumer...

| May 30, 2007

It's a slapdash affair... yet still winds up with a raw, gritty power.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 24, 2007

Maxed Out exposes the credit card sham for what it is, and fingers the hustlers who perpetuate it.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 20, 2007

...the film will make you think twice about spending money you don't have.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 27, 2007

To maximize your return on this useful report, sit through the end credits where Spurlock deposits some of his best material.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 23, 2007

Maxed Out doesn't really offer solutions, probably because there are none. But it does a great job of showing how the rich get richer and the poor foot the bill, plus interest.

Full Review | Mar 20, 2007

A much-needed wake-up call to face the fact that state-sanctioned usury and exorbitant late fees are destroying the prospects of working class citizens of ever achieving anything approaching the American Dream.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 17, 2007

As a film, Maxed Out occasionally loses its way with glib choices (get ready to get tired of the song Money) and odd diversions (a segment with a Realtor begins the movie with a whimper, not a bang). But as a cry of outrage, it's spot-on.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 15, 2007

Maxed Out, while occasionally muddled in its financial details, presents a more-accurate-than-not vision of a nation that is starting to look like a candidate for rehab, on both an individual and a national level, for its addiction to debt.

| Original Score: B | Mar 14, 2007

What Spurlock discovers in his scathing investigative inquiry, is a shocking national situation of debt slavery, with all the earmarks of science fiction.

Full Review | Mar 13, 2007