The Corporation (2003)
Big Picture Media Corporation

Description

This feature documentary analyzes the very nature of the corporate institution, its impacts on our planet, and what people are doing in response.

Collected reviews and ratings

10 digitallyobsessed.com | Chuck Aliaga

The Corporation is a truly phenomenal, informative film about a subject that the conservative media and politicians would just as soon ignore than make any effort to tackle first-hand. It's nice to see these filmmakers take the time and effort to present the facts in a detailed, methodical way and not jump on the brisk, all-frills documentary bandwagon that's existed for the last few years.
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10 DVD Verdict | Joel Pearce

If we are unhappy with the way that corporations run, and the way they act on the international scene, we need to work together to do something about it. It's time for our society to be responsible to humanity, the environment, and the future. The Corporation argues that point well, and offers numerous practical ways for us to move in that direction.
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9.2 Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

The case studies of corporate amorality are presented with such passion and clarity that the Canadian-grade snark is easily ignored in this damning annual report.
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9.0 Washington Post | Michael O'Sullivan

Through meticulously assembled case studies and exhaustively researched history, the filmmakers lay a solid foundation for the claim that, operating on the assumption that a legal person must logically have a "personality," the typical corporation, with its charter-mandated and shareholder-oriented goal of self-interest above all else, is, in short, a psychopath.
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8.8 TV Guide | Ken Fox

Jennifer Abbott's excoriating documentary offers a stinging diagnosis of contemporary American society's dominant institution.
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8.0 Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

The Corporation takes great and successful pains to be as visually diverse and clever as it is intellectually provocative.
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8.0 Variety | Dennis Harvey

Taking on an unwieldy subject ripe for critical scrutiny, "The Corporation" provides a surprisingly cogent, entertaining, even rabble-rousing indictment of perhaps the most influential institutional model for our era.
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8.0 Amazon user reviews

This is an extraordinary film about the creation of the American corporation, its legal organizational model, its global economic dominance and its psychopathic tendencies, and its incredible ambition to influence every aspect of culture in its unrelenting pursuit of profit.
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7.0 New York Times | A.O. Scott

Like other, less sophisticated efforts to articulate a comprehensive anticorporate ideology, this movie occasionally ensnares itself in contradictions it does not quite acknowledge.
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5.0 DVD Talk | Holly E. Ordway

I think the stylistic and organizational choices that the filmmakers made are really counterproductive, making what could have (and should have) been a gripping and informative piece into a flashy, glib, and unfortunately rather unengaging film.
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