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Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price (2005)

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Average Rating: 7.4/10
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Everyone has seen Wal-Mart's lavish television commercials, but have you ever wondered why Wal-Mart spends so much money trying to convince you it cares about your family, your community, and even its own employees? What is it hiding? Filmmaker Robert Greenwald takes you behind the glitz and into the real lives of workers and their families, business owners and their communities.

Nov 15, 2005

All Critics (32) | Top Critics (11) | Fresh (28) | Rotten (2) | DVD (9)

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

November 18, 2005 Full Review Source: Boston Globe | Comment
Boston Globe
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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.

November 16, 2005 Comment
Hollywood Reporter
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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.

November 14, 2005 Comment
New Yorker
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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.

November 14, 2005 Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper | Comment
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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.

November 4, 2005 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment
Variety
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Greenwald has shrewdly chosen not to go with classic talking head types like economists, academics and journalists. Instead he talked to current and former Wal-Mart employees, including several with a dozen or more years with the company.

November 4, 2005 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | Comment
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Embora irregular (as seqüências que se focam na China beiram o ridículo, com a dublagem e os apelidos dos entrevistados), o filme de Greenwald estabelece argumentos fortes que levam o espectador a desejar boicotar a empresa-título.

December 29, 2006 Comment
Cinema em Cena

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.

May 12, 2006 Full Review Source: ViewLondon | Comment
ViewLondon

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

January 25, 2006 Full Review Source: Old School Reviews | Comment

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.

January 6, 2006 Full Review Source: Oregonian | Comment
Oregonian

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

December 4, 2005 Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice | Comment
Spirituality and Practice

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...

November 23, 2005 Comment

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

November 20, 2005 Full Review Source: Laramie Movie Scope | Comment
Laramie Movie Scope

Effective muckraking documentary.

November 18, 2005 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price

It is one of my sources of happiness to say that: I dont know Wal-Mart, neither do I take one sided Documentaries serious. What this Documentary shows, it is not a secret those many 'chain stores and every second little store around the corner do it already since before the Wal-Mart. I think these kind of Documentary

December 7, 2009
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Wahida K

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Ok, everyone already knows that Wal-mart and Wal-mart like stores are sucking the blood of the country. This film brings up lots of good points, but really they are just attacking the big name of an already established system that sucks. It's called 'chain stores'. Everybody pays people in China pennies to make our

November 19, 2007
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Curtis Lilly

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