Review of Capitalism: A Love Story (2009) by Kate H — 24 Feb 2011

As depressing and anger inducing as its meant to be but, as usual, he makes generalizations and skews the facts. I mean it's certainly a bit more on his side and I totally agree with what he's saying but there you have it. If he didn't insert himself in so much it would go over better. Because he insists on being in pretty much every frame it puts things a little out of perspective. This is nothing new, naturally, since he's done it everything but his best documentary to me - Bowling for Columbine - did the best because he mostly let the subject matter speak for itself. "Fahrenheit 9/11" was alright, "Sicko" was pretty good, and this one falls into 'pretty good' as well. I'd just like it if he stepped back for a bit. Hard to ask of him I know but there you have it.

I also find it a bit strange to be making a movie about capitalism that was distributed by Alliance Atlantis, a major film group. The nature of the beast, I know, but it just sits weird with me.