Big Boys Gone Bananas!* Reviews
Shockya.com
A compelling story about freedom of speech, and how in a worldwide economy and digital age companies are even more apt to take aggressive measures to squelch voices and stories that can negatively impact their bottom lines.
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| Original Score: B
Daily Express
A film that convinces you that individuals' actions can make a difference.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Little White Lies
Interesting enough but there's nothing here a Wikipedia page won't tell you.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Guardian [UK]
Gertten's film deftly lifts the lid on the black ops of 21st-century "brand management". Dole comes out smelling of ordure.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Daily Telegraph
Corporate PR has seldom looked so sinister, or daft.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Financial Times
A sweetly quixotic documentary about the justice sought by a Swedish film-maker after Dole, the fruit-tinning company, tried to ban his earlier documentary about pesticide-poisoned banana pickers in Nicaragua.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Top Critic
Empire Magazine
A punchy examination of an oppressive corporate machinery in full swing.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Total Film
A compelling case study in the perils of taking on Goliath, and a timely parable about modern media and corporate "reputation anxiety".
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| Original Score: 3/5
An eye-opening look at the way the U.S. media fell lockstep behind Dole's claims.
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| Original Score: 3/5
The film's protests of censorship ring hollow given its selective version of the truth.
A provocative look at what can happen when corporate power takes aim at independent film.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Far more dramatic than Dragon Tattoo since it involves a real Swede against real vicious corporate pigs. The truth, of course, is always more interesting than fiction.
Slant Magazine
The issue remains that this variety of faux-populism seems better suited to the soapbox than the silver screen.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
An occasionally fascinating, if ultimately reductive, showdown between First Amendment rights and corporate power.
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| Original Score: 2/5
A David-and Goliath story that delves into corporate scare tactics, legal effrontery, brand protection, media manipulation, online propagandizing and craven behavior.
AV Club
Big Boys Gone Bananas!* makes a damning case against Dole as a corporate bully eager to silence criticism, but it raises troubling questions about the veracity of its own case it frustratingly has no interest in answering.
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| Original Score: C+
