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Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Allow yourself the pleasure of being thoroughly entertained while being equally outraged by this movie. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: The movie does more than entertain and enlighten you. At the end, you also realize you've been watching a classic American tale, one that we can only hope will never be repeated -- though it well might be. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Gibney's documentary is ultimately not about business and numbers but about morality; how a group of people, blinded by money, lost their souls. Read more
David Edelstein, Slate: The documentary cannot be called muckraking, as the muck has already been well-raked, but Gibney's recounting has a touch of playful sadism that I quite enjoyed. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: This is a brilliantly executed, brutally entertaining dissection of what one observer called the greatest corporate fraud in American history. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Gibney's research is impressive, as is his ability to clarify a complex bit of shady business into something (semi) comprehensible to those who don't know a day trader from a daytripper. Read more
Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: A meticulously researched and ably handled chronicle of one of the largest corporate scandals in American history. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Gibney has been able to get his hands on the right materials, and he assembles the right talking heads to string the story together. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: It's a chilling, completely fascinating documentary that reveals the face of unregulated greed in a way that's every bit as terrifying as Lon Chaney's unmasking in The Phantom of the Opera. Maybe more so, because everything here is true. Read more
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: Alex Gibney's documentary based on the book is pretty much straight-ahead journalism Read more
Michael Booth, Denver Post: Go see it before you buy another stock you don't understand. Go see it before you bank your retirement on the company pension fund. Go see it before you vote in another election. Read more
Christy Lemire, Deseret News, Salt Lake City: Alex Gibney takes a notorious tale of corporate greed and plays it as Greek tragedy, Texas-style. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: The Smartest Guys in the Room lays bare, in funny and shocking video clips, the culture of arrogance at Enron. Read more
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: Go see Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room and learn how to get righteously angry again. Read more
Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: [A] fiercely intelligent, terrifying and absurdly funny documentary. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: Deft, entertaining and infuriating documentary about one of the most egregious cases of corporate corruption in American history. Read more
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Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: [Gibney] tells a complex story well, explaining how one once-obscure company ended up committing 'the corporate crime of the century.' Read more
Jami Bernard, New York Daily News: A thoroughly fascinating -- and horrifying -- documentary about the giant corporate house of cards that came crashing down on the heads of all the little people while the big guys cashed out for mega-millions, smirking all the way. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: This sober, informative chronicle of the biggest business scandal of the decade is almost indecently entertaining. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: This thorough and thoroughly depressing account of the biggest corporate bankruptcy in history, and the rip-off that accompanied it, is so infuriating and dispiriting that your blood will boil, if not properly watered down. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The picture it paints is scarier than anything offered by any of Hollywood's recycled gore-fests. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: No matter what your politics, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room will make you mad. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: Amid the infoglut that surrounds us, Gibney's film feels too much like more noise. Read more
Jonathan Curiel, San Francisco Chronicle: There will be lots of seething at the sight of it all, but there are enough good laughs to make the experience more than worthwhile. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: You might expect this film to be mildly informative; coming out you'll feel you've seen the horror movie of the year. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Doesn't require an interest in business affairs to be captivating. It unfolds like a Wall St. disaster movie with two eminently hissable villains presiding over the catastrophe. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: This cinematic scrutiny of runaway corporate greed reveals the nightmarish rapaciousness of those who engineered the fraud. Read more
J. Hoberman, Village Voice: Less corporate noir than capitalist disaster film. Read more
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: It's a story of jaw-dropping chutzpah, grim, mostly hindsight-based humor and more stomach-churning drama than you could find in 10 screenplays. Read more