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Inside Job

2010

Charles Ferguson

Documentary, Self: Gylfi Zoega, Andri Snær Magnasson, Sigridur Benediktsdottir ...

7.6

19,385

Documentary From Academy Award nominated filmmaker, Charles Ferguson (“No End In Sight”), comes INSIDE JOB, the first film to expose the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs. Through extensive research and interviews with major financial insiders, politicians and journalists, INSIDE JOB traces the rise of a rogue ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Ann Hornaday The Washington Post	"'Inside Job' traces the history of the crisis and its implications with exceptional lucidity, rigor and righteous indignation"
		Joe Morgenstern The Wall Street Journal	"Inside Job has the added value, as well as the cold comfort, of being furiously interesting and hugely infuriating"
		Rob Nelson Variety	"Charles Ferguson's sophomore film Inside Job is the definitive screen investigation of the global economic crisis, providing hard evidence of flagrant amorality -- and of a new nonfiction master at work."
		Keith Uhlich Time Out	"Our fury is never directed toward concrete solutions, and that allows the guilty parties to slip, perhaps permanently, from our grasp."
		Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"After watching Charles Ferguson's powerhouse documentary about the global economic crisis, you will more than understand what went down - you will be thunderstruck and boiling with rage."
		Andrew O'Hehir Salon	"It might well be the most important film you see this year, and the most important documentary of this young century"
		J.R. Jones Chicago Reader	"'American Casino' and Michael Moore's 'Capitalism: A Love Story' offered more striking images of the human wreckage, but Ferguson is more successful at nailing the perpetrators in New York"
		Damon Wise Empire	"A sharp study of corporate greed"
		Carrie Rickey Philadelphia Inquirer	"It is a damning indictment of the individuals and institutions who made money while customers lost their shirts"
		David Denby The New Yorker	"“No End in Sight,” the best of the nonfiction movies about the Iraq war—doesn’t replace any of those works, but it provides the most comprehensive brief narrative of the causes of the crisis (which was set in motion well before that homeowner in Stockton signed a piece of paper). Many documentaries are good at drawing attention to an outrage and stirring up our feelings. Ferguson’s film certainly does this, but his exposition of complex information is also masterly. Indignation is often the most self-deluding of emotions; this movie has the rare gifts of lucid passion and informed rage."
		Wesley Morris Boston Globe	"A scathing, outrageous, depressing, comical, horrifying report on what and who brought on the crisis."
		Mick LaSalle San Francisco Chronicle	"There's such a thing as smart angry, and such a thing as stupid angry, and after seeing Inside Job, audiences will be smart angry"

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