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American Casino presents the causes and effects of the American banking crisis with just enough clarity and rage to overcome its flaws.
All Critics (33) | Top Critics (17) | Fresh (24) | Rotten (9)
The Cockburns paint a picture of a financial world devoid of morality and scruples, a culture in which reckless disregard of reason and caution led to a towering house of cards that could only come crashing down. Nov 22, 2009 | Full Review…
The Cockburns paint a picture of a financial world devoid of morality and scruples, a culture in which reckless disregard of reason and caution led to a towering house of cards that could only come crashing down.
Jonathan F. Richards
As Leslie Cockburn's camera roams the foreclosed rowhouses of Baltimore, their planked-up doors reminiscent of shots from The Wire, I thought: Baltimore needs some good PR. Nov 5, 2009 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
As Leslie Cockburn's camera roams the foreclosed rowhouses of Baltimore, their planked-up doors reminiscent of shots from The Wire, I thought: Baltimore needs some good PR.
Dan Kois
Much of the final two-thirds of the documentary can have a TV newsmagazine feel: solidly presented, but not shaped to a larger end. As self-righteousness sets in, however justified, so does a certain artistic slackness. Nov 5, 2009 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Much of the final two-thirds of the documentary can have a TV newsmagazine feel: solidly presented, but not shaped to a larger end. As self-righteousness sets in, however justified, so does a certain artistic slackness.
Mark Feeney
The documentary details in no-nonsense, talking-head style how commercial and investment banks moved high-risk mortgages out into the economy, dumping debt and reaping profits in the process. Oct 1, 2009 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
The documentary details in no-nonsense, talking-head style how commercial and investment banks moved high-risk mortgages out into the economy, dumping debt and reaping profits in the process.
Steven Rea
A lopsided, visually uninspired film that works best when it eschews the complex numbers-crunching of its financial industry pundits and whistle-blowers to profile the everyday victims of the crisis. Sep 18, 2009 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…
A lopsided, visually uninspired film that works best when it eschews the complex numbers-crunching of its financial industry pundits and whistle-blowers to profile the everyday victims of the crisis.
Gary Goldstein
This film stands as an intimate, terrifying document that renders an incomprehensible slice of recent history in human terms. Sep 18, 2009
This film stands as an intimate, terrifying document that renders an incomprehensible slice of recent history in human terms.
Andrew O'Hehir
This smart, touching documentary traces the connections between Wall Street's high-flying practices and the countless citizens on Main Street who now face bankruptcy and eviction. May 17, 2018 | Full Review…
This smart, touching documentary traces the connections between Wall Street's high-flying practices and the countless citizens on Main Street who now face bankruptcy and eviction.
John Powers
It's a nightmare that starts like a normal daytime drive and ends in a vortex-like sinkhole. Nov 13, 2009 | Rating: 3.5/4
It's a nightmare that starts like a normal daytime drive and ends in a vortex-like sinkhole.
Michael Sragow
Putting a face on the incomprehensible figures, the film takes a look at some of the victims, middle-class professionals who bought into the dream of home ownership and lost everything. Oct 29, 2009 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Putting a face on the incomprehensible figures, the film takes a look at some of the victims, middle-class professionals who bought into the dream of home ownership and lost everything.
Peter Keough
If there's an overarching theme it's that people respond to incentives and so regulation of the financial market is necessary to see that the incentives offered are not perverse. Oct 24, 2009 | Rating: 6/10 | Full Review…
If there's an overarching theme it's that people respond to incentives and so regulation of the financial market is necessary to see that the incentives offered are not perverse.
Sarah Boslaugh
It may be a little too Jack Webb for the masses, but there is value to its sober, just-the-facts approach. Oct 2, 2009 | Rating: B | Full Review…
It may be a little too Jack Webb for the masses, but there is value to its sober, just-the-facts approach.
Gary Thompson
The best look to date at the rotten US housing mortgage system that developed over the last ten years. Clear enough to make you cry. Sep 10, 2009 | Rating: 9/10 | Full Review…
The best look to date at the rotten US housing mortgage system that developed over the last ten years. Clear enough to make you cry.
Ron Wilkinson
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