While the Wal-Mart story cries out for a similar thorough going expose, Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price isn't so much a film but the raw materials from which a film has yet to be assembled.

| May 7, 2020

Yet, despite the inherent lack of suspense in this "bad corporation!" genre... Robert Greenwald's documentary still generates enough jaw-dropping revelations to make it more than just an exercise in confirming anti-globalisation prejudices.

| Sep 26, 2017

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 13, 2007

Embora irregular (as seqncias que se focam na China beiram o ridculo, com a dublagem e os apelidos dos entrevistados), o filme de Greenwald estabelece argumentos fortes que levam o espectador a desejar boicotar a empresa-ttulo.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 29, 2006

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 13, 2006

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 12, 2006

If Greenwald's intention was to make the audience very angry indeed then the film is a resounding success ... it'll definitely make you want to boycott Asda.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 12, 2006

Once again David slays Goliath in a documentary that has no pretense of being objective

| Original Score: B | Jan 25, 2006

It's a bill of indictment, really, more than an objective survey. Greenwald often makes his arguments with a kind of prosecutorial zeal that makes you chary of swallowing it whole.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Jan 6, 2006

A searing expose of the greed and systemic poor treatment of its workers by the largest corporation in the world.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 4, 2005

If you think you already know all about how evil and rapacious America's largest retailer is, wait 'til you see this latest exercise in muckraking from Robert Greenwald...

Full Review | Nov 23, 2005

The information in the film is largely anecdotal and not analytical. This is what gives the film its power.

| Original Score: C+ | Nov 20, 2005

Advocacy journalism at its most unsparing, and it demands to be seen, discussed, argued with, and acted upon.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 18, 2005

Effective muckraking documentary.

| Original Score: B- | Nov 18, 2005

Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price lacks the cinematic panache to elevate it above the level of agitprop. But its all too relevant dissection of its subject is well worth paying attention to.

Full Review | Nov 16, 2005

...will win few points for art...but its subject matter provides such a wealth of material that subtlety is hardly required, nor even desired.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 14, 2005

For all its missteps, the movie powerfully suggests that Wal-Mart is capable of demoralizing a community so thoroughly that it doesn't have the spirit to carry on its life outside the big box.

Full Review | Nov 14, 2005

Wal-Mart says director Robert Greenwald's film is misleading and inaccurate, but it's hard to dispute the personal accounts from former Wal-Mart employees who speak from experience.

Full Review | Nov 14, 2005

Greenwald paints a portrait -- one that has Wal-Mart frantically countering with damage-control plans -- that says the corporate juggernaut is sticking it to all of us.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 9, 2005

Whatever Greenwald lacks in style he makes up for with a deluge of facts and figures and a populist feel that make his movies, this one included, accessible even to the most politically naive.

Full Review | Nov 4, 2005