The Corporation (2003)
Average Rating: 7.4/10
Reviews Counted: 109
Fresh: 98 | Rotten: 11
The Corporation is a satisfyingly dense, thought-provoking rebuttal to some of capitalism's central arguments.
Average Rating: 7.6/10
Critic Reviews: 32
Fresh: 30 | 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
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All Critics (117) | Top Critics (34) | Fresh (105) | Rotten (11) | DVD (20)
A history lesson, a warning shot and damning personality profile, all backed up with expert interviews.
Top CriticCarries a powerful, albeit not new, message. It is frightening.
The rare movie that sets out to alter the audience's consciousness -- and succeeds.
This documentary's extra-long running time and a narrator who sounds like a sedated Star Trek computer won't win many converts.
This is a movie that will make you think.
Sharp-witted, infuriating and at times depressing.
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.
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.
An impressive array of interviewees, from Michael Moore to Milton Friedman, give their take on modern capitalism.
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.
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.
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.
A dry and irreverent but nonetheless lethal indictment of the runaway apple cart of American commerce.
One of those necessary films that we have to see for our own health.
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