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.
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11/04/05
Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price (2005)
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Reviews Counted:26
Fresh:24
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7/10
Rated: Not Rated
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
Synopsis: Robert Greenwald (OUTFOXED) continues his expose of evil corporate doings with this documentary, released as part of Wal-Mart Week, a nationwide activist initiative to bring the company's business... [More]
Director: Robert Greenwald
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Reviews for Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
Top Critic...will win few points for art...but its subject matter provides such a wealth of material that subtlety is hardly required, nor even desired.
11/14/05
A searing expose of the greed and systemic poor treatment of its workers by the largest corporation in the world.
12/04/05
Advocacy journalism at its most unsparing, and it demands to be seen, discussed, argued with, and acted upon.
11/18/05
Top CriticViewers may not be surprised to learn of Wal-Mart's horrific track record, but they can't deny Greenwald's airtight advocacy.
11/01/05
Top CriticFor 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.
11/14/05
Top CriticThese good people cast their votes, close up shop and then scratch their heads, wondering how something like Wal-Mart could happen in a place like America.
11/04/05
Robert Greenwald's documentary makes a devastating case against the largest retailer on the planet.
11/04/05
Top CriticWith little fanfare, Robert Greenwald has become one of the most incisive activist filmmakers in America.
11/02/05
Top CriticGreenwald paints a portrait -- one that has Wal-Mart frantically countering with damage-control plans -- that says the corporate juggernaut is sticking it to all of us.
11/09/05
Try though Greenwald might to not end things on a defeatist note, one observation from early in the film lingers: What Wal-Mart obliterates in small communities can never be replaced or regained.
11/03/05
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...
11/23/05
The documentary compiles a wide array of corporate offenses.
11/04/05
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.
01/06/06
Wal-Mart's home office in Bentonville, Ark., can rest easy: Greenwald, as usual, is hysterically preaching to the choir.
11/04/05
Top CriticIt takes the gleam off those penny-saving bargains.
11/04/05
Top CriticOnce again David slays Goliath in a documentary that has no pretense of being objective
01/25/06
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.
11/14/05
Top CriticThe information in the film is largely anecdotal and not analytical. This is what gives the film its power.
11/20/05
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.
11/16/05
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