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The Corporation (2003)

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Average Rating: 7.4/10
Reviews Counted: 107
Fresh: 97 | Rotten: 10

The Corporation is a satisfyingly dense, thought-provoking rebuttal to some of capitalism's central arguments.

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Average Rating: 7.6/10
Critic Reviews: 30
Fresh: 28 | Rotten: 2

The Corporation is a satisfyingly dense, thought-provoking rebuttal to some of capitalism's central arguments.

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In the mid-1800s, corporations began to be recognized as individuals by U.S. courts, granting them unprecedented rights. The Corporation, a documentary by filmmakers Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott and author Joel Bakan, delves into that legal standard, essentially asking: if corporations were people, what kind of people would they be? Applying psychiatric principles and FBI forensic techniques, and through a series of case studies, the film determines that this entity, the corporation, which

Unrated, 2 hr. 25 min.

Documentary, Drama, Special Interest

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Joel Bakan

Apr 5, 2005

$1.4M

Zeitgeist Films

All Critics (114) | Top Critics (30) | Fresh (104) | Rotten (10) | DVD (20)

A history lesson, a warning shot and damning personality profile, all backed up with expert interviews.

October 29, 2004 Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | Comment
Orlando Sentinel
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The rare movie that sets out to alter the audience's consciousness -- and succeeds.

September 17, 2004 Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | Comment
Houston Chronicle
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This documentary's extra-long running time and a narrator who sounds like a sedated Star Trek computer won't win many converts.

September 16, 2004 Full Review Source: Arizona Republic | Comment
Arizona Republic
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This is a movie that will make you think.

August 19, 2004 Full Review Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Comment
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Sharp-witted, infuriating and at times depressing.

July 30, 2004 Full Review Source: Denver Post | Comment
Denver Post
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A highly entertaining and instructive look at a subject that's rarely discussed in detail.

July 23, 2004 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
Chicago Reader
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The 150-year old legal construct of the corporation, as a "person," is dissected for all to see how its lack of accountability has enabled the faulty model to become a ruling institution, acting beyond the reach of any government.

June 10, 2009 Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | Comment
ColeSmithey.com

As a clever joke, the filmmakers run down a list of the traits of a psychopath and find a corporate action to match each one. Diagnosis: psychopath. It's cute, but it's a logical fallacy.

June 3, 2008 Full Review Source: Paste Magazine | Comment
Paste Magazine

The undercurrent of this exhaustive critique is really all about good and evil, and in what ways often sordid human history is determined, not as a product of malice, but by the most typical people who could care less.

June 2, 2007 Full Review | Comment
Long Island Press

The undercurrent of this exhaustive critique is really all about good and evil, and in what ways often sordid human history is determined, not as a product of malice, but by the most typical people who could care less.

June 2, 2007 Full Review | Comment
Long Island Press

It's the Lord of the Rings of modern documentaries: epic, vivid, wise, well-paced, expansive%u2014the kind of movie that makes you want to do more with your life.

August 6, 2006 Full Review Source: Nick's Flick Picks | Comment
Nick's Flick Picks

A dry and irreverent but nonetheless lethal indictment of the runaway apple cart of American commerce.

April 19, 2005 Full Review Source: Now Playing Magazine | Comment

One of those necessary films that we have to see for our own health.

April 12, 2005 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

The Corporation feels like a long, long Congressional hearing. But what an indictment it is of American big business.

April 8, 2005 Comment
Movie Metropolis

The Corporation is overlong, yes, and opinionated, true. But it's also fine journalism.

April 5, 2005 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment
eFilmCritic.com

compacts a great deal of complex information into a thorough, well-designed, and entertaining presentation that is bound to evoke a reaction of some kind

April 3, 2005 Full Review Source: Q Network Film Desk | Comment
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Shocking, effective, leftist, snarky and entertaining Canadian.

June 24, 2007
brooklynspo

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This movie will infuriate you, no matter which side of the debate you're on.

May 5, 2007
kenstachnik

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