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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 01 Aug 2018

Greenfield's depiction of the uber-materialism of today's world is compelling, if rather obvious, but her attempt to extrapolate from that…

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By Colin Covert (1,936) for Minneapolis Star Tribune (2,416) on 01 Aug 2018

Despite having been a renowned photographer for more than a quarter-century, Greenfield here seems to have lost her focus…

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By Clint Worthington (295) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 31 Jul 2018

While the focus occasionally gets lost in the filmmaker’s personal inquisition, it remains a thought-provoking, challenging cap to Greenfield’s…

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By Danielle White (52) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 31 Jul 2018

It’s not entirely clear what “generation” is the guilty one being examined in filmmaker Lauren Greenfield’s third full-length documentary,…

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By Arlin Golden (28) for Film Inquiry (1,269) on 31 Jul 2018

Greenfield fails to offer an indictment of the systems that allow for the unchecked accumulation of wealth…

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By Martha K. Baker (133) for KDHX (St. Louis) (284) on 31 Jul 2018

In fact, interviewing her subjects after their bubbles burst says the most in Greenfield's taut documentary about Generation Wealth…

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By Ruben Peralta Rigaud (117) for Cocalecas (95) on 30 Jul 2018

But in the end there is a lack of unity, a lack of sharp observation, an appropriate vision and a conclusion in which we see what the proposal…

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By Courtney Howard (393) for Fresh Fiction (404) on 28 Jul 2018

It's both bruising and beautiful, sorrowful and sensational, all whilst being a savage exploration of humanity's insatiable nature…

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By Walter Addiego (380) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 26 Jul 2018

The film has its flaws, but after watching its catalog of shifty hedge fund types, Kardashians, plastic surgery addicts, bling-laden rappers…

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By Kate Taylor (347) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 25 Jul 2018

Greenfield tells us she charts the extremes to understand the mainstream, but glimpses of an explanation for the insanities and obscenities…

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By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 24 Jul 2018

Meaty interviews with journalist Chris Hedges, for instance, lend the film needed context and a sense of intellectual detachment…

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By Walter V. Addiego (363) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 24 Jul 2018

Generation Wealth feels like it's all over the place, and that, if most of its subjects are lacking in depth, the movie itself is open to the…

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By Kristen Lopez (178) for Spectrum Culture (164) on 24 Jul 2018

Greenfield is crushed by the weight of her topic, which probably could have used some pruning or additional defining…

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By Kelly Vance (1,015) for East Bay Express (1,012) on 24 Jul 2018

The doc actually makes it to the 25-minute mark before showing a glimpse of Donald Trump's face - considering the cheapness of Greenfield's…

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By Doris Toumarkine (464) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 23 Jul 2018

Amazon Studios' Generation Wealth is what Amazon is-too much…

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By Edward Porter (366) for Sunday Times (UK) (753) on 22 Jul 2018

It has only a few punchy moments and lots of dull generalisations about the effects of capitalism and the Kardashians…

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By Tara Brady (805) for Irish Times (1,391) on 22 Jul 2018

These competing strands might have been successfully integrated as a larger critique of late consumer capitalism, but there's no room for the…

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By Hilary A White (243) for Sunday Independent (Ireland) (504) on 22 Jul 2018

Admirably...here the US photographer and director weaves herself into the frame in order to try to bring context to a subject that can seem…

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By Tanya Sweeney (10) for Irish Independent (461) on 22 Jul 2018

Had Greenfield focused on her myriad brilliant subjects and delved a little deeper into their lives, Generation Wealth might have been a better film…

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By Brian Thompson (55) for The Young Folks (1,024) on 22 Jul 2018

Generation Wealth dives beneath the surface in its - pointed, albeit frequently shallow - examination of the superficiality of overindulgence,…

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