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Reviews Counted:13
Fresh:13
Rotten:0
Average Rating:7.9/10
Consensus: Dynamic, tightly arranged, and deliberately provocative, Joe Berlinger's Crude is a sobering, enraging wake-up call.
Rated: Not Rated
Genre: Education/General Interest
Theatrical Release:Sep 9, 2009 Limited
Synopsis: Director Joe Berlinger continues in the tradition of his justice-driven films BROTHER’S KEEPER and PARADISE LOST with this documentary. CRUDE travels to South America, where it investigates the... [More]
Director: Joe Berlinger
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As the film very eloquently implies, when the greater good is defined as profits, and a lack of culpability is proportionate to your number of shareholders, well . . . a lot of petroleum-soaked chickens will be coming home to roost.
Top CriticAt first Crude looks like one more environmental agit-doc intended to outrage and inspire. Director Joe Berlinger is no doctrinaire hack, though.
Top CriticIt's a David-and-Goliath tale, full of anger and disturbing accusation, but it's also inspiring.
Top CriticA legal thriller, it's a three-year investigation into the disaster environmentalists call the “Amazonian Chernobyl” that offers both sides of the story and leaves the viewer in the position of jury.
Top CriticBerlinger provides a bracing and intelligent look at how such battles are (and perhaps must be) fought in a world that's hardly lacking when it comes to tales of injustice.
Top CriticPowerful and powerfully upsetting.
Top CriticNo film could convey all the complexities of the case -- what Crude does is air the plaintiffs' claims and show the lawyers at work.
Top CriticHere’s a powerhouse of a documentary that makes you feel mad as hell and unwilling to take it anymore.
Top CriticThe film is fair (which is different from being objective) and works hard at representing both points of view. That it's already been denounced in some quarters is only proof he has the oil companies worried.
Top CriticInvolving doc about the devastating impact of oil exploration on Ecuador's rainforest community.
Top CriticMr. Berlinger has both a strong narrative instinct and a keen eye for incongruous, evocative and powerful images.
Top CriticJoe Berlinger's remarkable documentary, Crude, recounts an infuriating litany of South American exploitation, backroom glad-handing, and bureaucratic dead ends.
Top CriticBerlinger doesn't counter Chevron's counter charges with facts and figures. With footage of petrochemical-sludge swamps and babies covered with flaming sores, he doesn't especially need to.
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