The Corporation: Critic Reviews

Acerbic, sardonically illuminating.

A dense, complicated and thought-provoking film, but it simplifies its title character.

If you care about the environment, workers' rights, your own health and your children's future, you need to see this film.

This is another unhelpful screed, uncontaminated by sense or perspective, that preaches loudly to the choir.

At its most effective, the movie is a chastening, sobering, and thorough work of film journalism, however shortsighted.

A leisurely, never boring, grimly amusing, and not entirely hopeless disquisition on the contemporary world's 'dominant institution.'

Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott and Joel Bakan have crafted an informative, amusing and unnerving overview of the history and consequences of corporations.

The rare movie that sets out to alter the audience's consciousness -- and succeeds.

Snappy and visually spry, with a treasure trove of vintage instructional and industrial film clips, this is an urgent, overlong (more than two hours) work that delivers a timely message about the times in which we live.

Sharp-witted, infuriating and at times depressing.

An impassioned polemic, filled with information sure to break up any dinner-table conversation.

It's a movie so chock full of information, so dense with context and analysis that it will keep you thinking and reacting, no matter what your bent or slant -- and no matter where you stand on the world-wide corporate ladder.

A highly entertaining and instructive look at a subject that's rarely discussed in detail.

If the filmmakers show a bias (and they do), it doesn't negate their central argument: For better or worse, the trends of global capitalism have changed -- and continue to change -- society as we know it.

It is an antidote to apathy, communicating a guarded sense of optimism about the ability of real people to hold corporations to account for their misdeeds.

This documentary's extra-long running time and a narrator who sounds like a sedated Star Trek computer won't win many converts.

Very well informed about the legal origins of corporations and their current near omnipotence.

A surprisingly cogent, entertaining, even rabble-rousing indictment of perhaps the most influential institutional model for our era.

There's no danger of falling asleep in this lecture.

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

Compelling, comprehensive and unsettling account of the rise and impact of the world's most powerful contemporary human institution.

A documentary with big answers.

Some thorough research, a clear presentation and a nice knit with America's ongoing corporate scandals should prod uninformed viewers to think more deeply about the role of big business in the world.

Cool yet scathing.

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.