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Requiem for the American Dream

This documentary follows the efforts of Noam Chomsky, a social critic, who makes interviews for four years, showing the concentration of wealth and power on the hands of a small group that affects the middle class.
Duration: 73 min
Quality: HD
Release: 2015
IMDb: 8.0
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S. Jhoanna Robledo Common Sense Media
February 05, 2016 Noam Chomsky's theories of inequality are important but dry.
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Jason Bailey Flavorwire
May 03, 2016 It's a swirling, upsetting picture that gets bigger and scarier the more he talks.
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Sherilyn Connelly SF Weekly
March 03, 2016 Requiem for the American Dream is valuable as a document of Chomsky while we still have him, but the people he's inspired may be his true legacy.
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John DeFore Hollywood Reporter
March 31, 2016 As one expects, Chomsky again proves to know more about his targets than they seem to know about themselves, calling on bits of history that damn not only the business-boosting right wing, but those on the supposed left side of American politics.
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Mick LaSalle San Francisco Chronicle
March 02, 2016 Few will agree with every word spoken, but Chomsky's vision of history is worth encountering and considering.
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J. R. Jones Chicago Reader
March 10, 2016 This feature by Peter Hutchison, Kelly Nyks, and Jared P. Scott presents a cogent and incisive lesson in how the superwealthy control the federal government.
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MaryAnn Johanson Flick Filosopher
April 27, 2016 [E]ye-opening, consciousness-expanding, and - ho boy yes indeedy - angry-making stuff.
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Dennis Harvey Variety
March 28, 2016 A very useful addition to public discourse at any time. But it's particularly so during this election year ...
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Amy Brady L.A. Weekly
March 31, 2016 The film lacks visual ingenuity, but the point isn't to show us something new - it's to tell us something we might not have heard. And what Chomsky says is as unsettling as it is persuasive.
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Martin Tsai Los Angeles Times
March 11, 2016 The film isn't necessarily pegged to the upcoming election per se, but the logic presented within helps make sense of current affairs.
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Molly Laich Missoula Independent
March 31, 2016 If you're looking for intellectual entertainment combined with political outrage, Requiem for the American Dream fulfills the contract.
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Brian Gibson Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)
June 02, 2016 The directors bring to filmic life Chomsky's calm, composed talking-points--his measured, reasonable long-view of history and polic--with inventive framing of archival footage and coolly sharp images. A potent Panama Papers-era dissection of power.
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