An alright accompaniment to the book, but on it's own, somewhat lacking.

An interesting distraction. The "bribes for grades" segment was funny.

Some parts are distinctly better than others, but this mismatch of pacing is a large part of its problem: following on from Spurlock's opening, everything feels just a little anaemic. That said, it's interesting right the way through, and it's proof that economics doesn't have to be confined to boring academic tomes.

Interesting, but so poorly done.

Terribly disappointed in this. The smug economists at the center of the film treat themselves like modern day wizards, for what? For bold conclusions like: kids respond to bribery (Maybe!) Baby names don't matter (or do they?) Something absolutely nonsensical about abortion and crime. Maybe there's interesting data in their book, but holy crap this collection of vignettes was uniformly awful.

The film feels disjointed and the book was certainly more compelling.

Individually, the segments are mediocre and incomplete, but I don't think the purpose of the movie is to convince you of any of those arguments. The purpose of the book and the movie is to make you question conventional logic. They present enough evidence to make you start asking questions, and I think that's all they were trying to do.

What's worse? Spurlock's exasperating need to narrate everything and highlight everything with cutesy animation? Gibney's predictably somber look at an issue through the veil of humanity's innate corruption? Ewing and Grady's glance at an Important Issue through the vantage point of two arbitrarily chosen subjects? Unsurprisingly, it's tonally all over the place. Why is this a movie?

A schizophrenic documentary that has a lot of great information, but isn't packaged particularly well.

Feels less like a documentary with a singular vision and more so like a series of interesting doc vignettes. Which makes sense considering how many directors are on board. I haven't read the book, so am not sure the differences between content, but I thought that each chapter provided something worthwhile. I really enjoyed the segment that sought to find the correlation between legalized abortion and lowered crime (though I'm sure that portion angered plenty of people).

Bits of it stand out, but it's very unbalanced. The crime wave segment kind of blew my mind.

Perhaps exploring the hidden side of everything is creating a high expectation, so do not wait to givew shocking cries on every scene. But as a documentary, the way it is told and presented was very good and impressive, after Spurlock effect the rest felt a little slow. Still, informative, sometimes exciting, but most certainly entertaining to watch.

Interesting but I can only assume this works better in book format with more room to flesh out.

"Blame produced Chad Troutwine for bringing together an array of talented documentary filmmakers to try to coax life into material certainly not suited to the medium of film." - Lauren Wissot