This superior documentary is packed to the gills with enraging, depressing answers as to what ignited the 2008 recession.
On the plus side, inventive graphics help to delineate complex issues and the film is pleasingly devoid of political leanings. On the minus, certain issues which may also have been root causes are glossed over.
A sharp study of corporate greed for those who felt Michael Moore pulled too many punches.
Yes, this doesn't change anything, and yes they are being reduced to de facto Aunt Sallys here, but it's rather satisfying all the same.
Sober, thoughtful and outraged, and gives an illuminating, if infuriating, insight into the unethical practices of our financial rulers.
The shocking truth about the economic crisis
Essential viewing.
Next to the scare-bomb tactics of a Michael Moore, Ferguson’s cogency and patience feel like adult tools for an adult task.
Ferguson argues that what happened was criminal fraud on a catastrophic scale and asks why there have been no prosecutions of those responsible.
Inside Job adds up to cinema's most remarkable indictment of financial chicanery since Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room in 2005.
This film is as gripping as any thriller.
There's a restless anger here.
Banker bashing is transformed into very focused rage in this clear-headed, intelligently argued documentary about the cause, effect and legacy of the 2008 financial meltdown.
Almost two hours sitting in front of a bunch of economists talking about credit derivatives doesn't sound like a great night out, but, somehow, Charles Ferguson's documentary indictment of the financial-economic-political complex manages to carry you though it.
Inside Job is no Michael Moore-style, left-wing polemic, but a lucid, coolly-explained exposé that blames left and right equally for the crisis.
...this intelligent, riveting and informative film, which I cannot commend too highly.
This is compelling storytelling which, unlike Wall Street, doesn’t have a happy ending.
Inside Job examines 2008 financial crisis--Charles Ferguson interview
Inside Job: how bankers caused the financial crisis
Bankers played a leading role in the crisis, but they aren't criminals
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