SummaryThis feature documentary analyzes the very nature of the corporate institution, its impacts on our planet, and what people are doing in response. (Zeitgeist Films)
Directed By:Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott
Written By:Joel Bakan, Harold Crooks, Mark Achbar, Thomas Shandel
The Corporation
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Generally Favorable
73
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
73
86% Positive
24 Reviews
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11% Mixed
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100
Riveting cinematic essay.
80
What it covers is so fundamentally relevant, and its polemic so persuasively structured, it’s worth braving the runtime even if it could easily have been more concise.
User score
Generally Favorable
7.7
80% Positive
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Dec 6, 2012
10
An absolute must-see for anyone who cares about educating themselves about everything that has gone wrong with America (and countries that follow a very similar model like Canada, etc.). If you're the type of person that thinks ignorance is bliss and just want to go on your merry way believing the corporations you buy all of your stuff from have nothing but the best intentions towards you and your environment this film is not for you. However, if you are a person who wants to know the truth about how the world really works so you possibly might be able to do something about injustices in it that need to be overcome then this film is for you.
Jan 13, 2011
8
Isolated as a narrative but powerful and educational in equal measure. Heavy-handed with the anti-capitalist message, the film is ironically exposed as a "how to succeed in business/marketing" and is repetitive at worst. Consider the words of Goodyear's CEO as insightful but the platform for change is anti-human and boundaries between positive and negative are never highlighted. Despite the many collaborations with learned figures there is little humanity on show and the subject matter is generalised. If learning is the mode of communication then this film has succeeded but it never delves deep enough to expose the truth instead opting to focus on entertainment. 10 for execution 6 for subjects = 8/10 (79/100)
80
Powerful, infuriating, and ultimately sobering. Make an effort to see it.
75
It's good stuff: a non-fiction film on weighty issues that also manages to entertain.
70
It's a powerful polemic in its own right, despite some maddeningly glib generalizations, a documentary that functions as a 2½-hour provocation in the ongoing debate about corporate conduct and governance.
67
With an over two-hour running time, these side issues come across as unnecessary weight and threaten to turn off the very viewers the filmmakers worked so hard and so ably to win over in the first place.
30
This is another unhelpful screed, uncontaminated by sense or perspective, that preaches loudly to the choir.
Apr 30, 2015
0
Complete lunacy that fails in every manner to comprehend the basic tenets of economics. A film that dares suggest that communal ownership as seen in Maoist China and The USSR is the solution to the problems society faces today and ignores the massive harms, famines and human rights abuses that communism entails. It also attempts to support a direct democracy in a system of communal ownership, complete idiocy. Simply put, just like any other Michael Moore film, this one should relegated squarely into the mental wastebin.
Production Company:
- Big Picture Media Corporation
Release Date:Jun 4, 2004
Duration:2 h 25 m
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Awards
Leo Awards
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Genie Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
