Village Voice by Chris Packham
The story of espionage and duplicity that financial adviser Martin Armstrong relates in Marcus Vetter's documentary The Forecaster is as serpentine and fascinating as a John le Carré novel.
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Germany, United States · 2014
Rated PG · 1h 40m
Director Marcus Vetter
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Genre Documentary
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Martin Armstrong is a wealthy financial advisor who is able to use the number pi to predict economic turning points. When New York bankers ask him to help them manipulate the markets, he declines. Less than a year later, the FBI raids his offices, accusing him of running a Ponzi scheme.
Village Voice by Chris Packham
The story of espionage and duplicity that financial adviser Martin Armstrong relates in Marcus Vetter's documentary The Forecaster is as serpentine and fascinating as a John le Carré novel.
Washington Post by Michael O'Sullivan
The bigger mystery is whether the models actually work. Though the Armstrong partisans in the film strongly suggest that they do, director Marcus Vetter struggles to convince the lay viewer.
Los Angeles Times by Michael Rechtshaffen
The Forecaster, a documentary study of the rise and fall of commodities advisor Martin Armstrong, would have paid greater dividends by taking a more impartial approach to its subject.
The Hollywood Reporter by Neil Young
An unambiguously partisan profile of controversial economics whiz Martin Armstrong — who spent a decade in jail on technicalities relating to fraud charges — it plays like a slickly elaborate sketch for a future Hollywood retelling in the Wolf of Wall Street mold.
The New York Times by Nicolas Rapold
The Forecaster has the distinct hermetic feel of a documentary that employs an echo chamber of people too close to the material.
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