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Metascore
28 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSan Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleIt’s coolheaded and incisive, a thorough and informative study of corporations, their origins and their place in the modern world.
- 100PremiereGlenn KennyPremiereGlenn KennyOver the course of almost two and a half fascinating hours, they make a cogent, compelling, powerful argument, and they also make a terrific movie.
- 83Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumThe 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.
- 80Film ThreatFilm ThreatPowerful, infuriating, and ultimately sobering. Make an effort to see it.
- 80VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyA surprisingly cogent, entertaining, even rabble-rousing indictment of perhaps the most influential institutional model for our era.
- 75Seattle Post-IntelligencerSeattle Post-IntelligencerToo short to tell the whole story. It is, however, a fast-paced, highly enjoyable and provocative introduction.
- 70Village VoiceJ. HobermanVillage VoiceJ. HobermanA leisurely, never boring, grimly amusing, and not entirely hopeless disquisition on the contemporary world's "dominant institution."
- 70TV Guide MagazineKen FoxTV Guide MagazineKen FoxBakan's arguments are buttressed by entertaining clips culled from commercials, industrial films and, appropriately, monster movies.
- 70The New York TimesDana StevensThe New York TimesDana StevensThe Corporation is a dense, complicated and thought-provoking film, but it simplifies its title character.
- 60The A.V. ClubNathan RabinThe A.V. ClubNathan RabinWithout 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.