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27 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100VarietyRob NelsonVarietyRob NelsonCharles 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.
- 100Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternWall Street JournalJoe MorgensternInside Job has the added value, as well as the cold comfort, of being furiously interesting and hugely infuriating. It's a scathing examination of the global economic meltdown that began more than two years ago and continues to affect our lives.
- 100The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe New York TimesA.O. ScottInside Job, a sleek, briskly paced film whose title suggests a heist movie, is the story of a crime without punishment, of an outrage that has so far largely escaped legal sanction and societal stigma.
- 100SalonAndrew O'HehirSalonAndrew O'HehirIt might well be the most important film you see this year, and the most important documentary of this young century.
- 90New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinNew York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinAs he proved in his Iraq-centered "No End in Sight," policy wonk turned documentarian Charles Ferguson has no peer when it comes to tracking the course of a preventable catastrophe.
- 90The Hollywood ReporterThe Hollywood ReporterMost impressively, it makes it understandable to those of us who don't know much at all about economics.
- 85MovielineMichelle OrangeMovielineMichelle OrangeEven more than it wants to inform Inside Job seeks to enrage.
- 83The A.V. ClubNathan RabinThe A.V. ClubNathan RabinFrom an emotional standpoint, it's enormously satisfying, even cathartic to watch Ferguson "nail" some of the rogues behind the economic crisis with the unseemly zeal of Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report.
- 80Village VoiceJ. HobermanVillage VoiceJ. HobermanThere's not much sense that the system can be voted out-not least because Barack Obama, shown campaigning on the crisis and elected in part to change the game, recruited his economic advisers from those who enabled the disaster.
- 60Time OutKeith UhlichTime OutKeith UhlichOur fury is never directed toward concrete solutions, and that allows the guilty parties to slip, perhaps permanently, from our grasp.