50
Unintentionally funny is still funny, and the documentary A Decent Factory, had me giggling.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
50
New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
Though it lacks a focus or greater artistic vision, Thomas Balmès' no-frills documentary offers Westerners a valuable glimpse into the sweatshops of the new China.
60
Director Thomas Balmès mostly just tags along for the ride, but the incidental details he picks up taint the sense of guarded hopefulness.
70
This film exposes a more insidious kind of exploitation, one far more difficult to detect.
40
The New York Times by Manohla Dargis
A cursory, irritatingly facile look at the human cost of globalization.
70
Fascinating case study of the moral quagmire of globalism.
60
The New Republic by Stanley Kauffmann
Why, then, is the picture chilling? Because it is a calm reminder of an inevitability. The sight of long lines of young women doing tiny bits of attachment work or packing hour after hour, day after day, is saddening.