75
Too short to tell the whole story. It is, however, a fast-paced, highly enjoyable and provocative introduction.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
70
The New York Times by Dana Stevens
The Corporation is a dense, complicated and thought-provoking film, but it simplifies its title character.
80
A surprisingly cogent, entertaining, even rabble-rousing indictment of perhaps the most influential institutional model for our era.
100
Over the course of almost two and a half fascinating hours, they make a cogent, compelling, powerful argument, and they also make a terrific movie.
70
A leisurely, never boring, grimly amusing, and not entirely hopeless disquisition on the contemporary world's "dominant institution."
70
Bakan's arguments are buttressed by entertaining clips culled from commercials, industrial films and, appropriately, monster movies.
83
Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
The Corporation has better manners and a longer fuse than ''Fahrenheit 9/11.'' But the acerbic, sardonically illuminating Canadian documentary shares with its American cousin a certain bleak leftist glee in pursuit of its cause.
100
San Francisco Chronicle by Mick LaSalle
It’s coolheaded and incisive, a thorough and informative study of corporations, their origins and their place in the modern world.
60
Without a unifying authorial voice to tie it together, the film often feels shapeless and rambling, brought together by little more than free-ranging contempt for capitalism's excesses.