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The China Hustle
2018
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Negative reviews
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Average Rating
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2.0
The China Hustle makes for an infuriating (and sometimes engaging) watch, but it falls far short of putting this particular financial practice into th ..
Den Of Geek
1.5
We dont need to watch a documentary film to understand that; we just have to look at the world around us.
Den Of Geek
3.1
Corruption is a word associated with both the Chinese government and the American stock exchange, and in The China Hustle, director Jed Rothstein demo ..
Rogerebert
3.0
Award winning filmmaker Jed Rothsteins film works as both a cautionary tale and as a compelling study of ineptitude, wishful thinking, and greed among ..
Common Sense Media
3.5
Though it resembles the docu journalism of Alex Gibney films like Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room Gibney serves as executive producer here, in fa ..
Variety
2.5
If the film accomplishes its goal, its a win win lose proposition for everyone concerned.
4.5
The China Hustle: Film Review | TIFF 2017 Jed Rothsteins involving doc chronicles a vast fraud that is underexposed in the general interest media.Not ..
The Hollywood Reporter
3.5
This is the story of a massive scam.There are no good guys in this story, GeoInvesting co founder turned financial whistleblower Dan David tells the c ..
3.5
From Roger & Me to An Inconvenient Truth, documentaries have shown that they can be great tools for spreading awareness, even on complicated topics th ..
The New York Times
3.6
By the time the film ends youll wish you could go back to being ignorant again.
Paste Magazine
1.5
David is our de facto guide here in telling this story of purported U.S. China collusion in selling bad deals via the formation of reverse mergers: in ..
4.0
What theyre up to now is anyones guess.All the world market can do now is brace itself.
The Young Folks
3.1
In horror movies, monsters often lose their power to terrify once they come fully into the frame.
The Globe And Mail
4.5
The films final moments, though, return to the overheated tone of its opening: The China Hustle suggests not just that all IPOs must be subjected to r ..
Village Voice
3.0
This documentary unveils some shocking facts about investments, and how few protections there are for investors facing this kind of scam.
Lariat
4.0
And it certainly isnt the audience, who will probably leave this tornado siren of a movie as informed as they are frightened.
Film Journal
3.8
The China Hustle Like on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheChinaHustle/ Documentary on financial chicanery in the murky world of international inv ..
Toronto Star
3.8
At a time when financial regulations have been gutted, stock market indexes reel, and trade wars threaten, Jed Rothsteins slick and revealing document ..
Boston Globe
2.0
THE CHINA HUSTLE DOCS D: Jed Rothstein.Sep 15, 7 pm, Scotiabank 3.
Now Toronto
2.0
This is one of those documentaries like Abacus and Enron that make you boiling mad at greedy bankers, ineffectual politicians and a financial system s ..
Patriot Ledger
3.5
With its cool graphics and satellite eye view of global chicanery, this is an easy sit for people who enjoyed the comic fictionalizing of The Big Shor ..
Straight
3.8
Even more unforgettable is its final cautionary note, which all but promises or more appropriately, threatens a impending sequel in the works.
Awards Circuit
4.5
And it certainly isnt the audience, who will probably leave this tornado siren of a movie as informed as they are frightened.
Film Journal International ..
3.0
By the midpoint of this newest economic malfeasance documentary, you may be prepared to put your money into mattresses literally.There are no good guy ..
National Post
2.0
And it should make you just as angry, if not more, at the fox in the henhouse scenario of the U.S. stock market.Seems the 08 calamity left surviving f ..
Original Cin
3.8
The China Hustle is a documentary about a financial scam, but as the scam is still ongoing, the information it provides is not just interesting, but p ..
Sf Chronicle
3.5
While I wish I could have spent longer with them, the film is understandably more interested in the future than the past.
Washington City Paper
4.0
It isnt so much a lesson in economics as it is a film about due diligence and common sense.
Richard Crouse
3.0
Its final passages are dedicated to Alibaba, a Chinese internet company and giant in the e commerce and entertainment fields.
The Film Experience
0.1
This is genuinely awful.Always remember this: when youre investing your money, if it sounds too good to be true, it always is.
Brightest Young Things
4.5
This makes for a fine companion piece to whatever our leader is up to with his raising of tariffs and jawboning about Chinas longstanding practice of ..
Bay Area Reporter
4.3
Its a lot to keep track of, but Rothstein is a clever editor and the film flows so that the constant information dump never becomes overwhelming.
The Pop Break
3.5
Another genre cliche, the premise is uncompelling.A social system that relies on gambling as a retirement vehicle has flaws that no amount of Wall Str ..
Nonfics
3.0
Another by the numbers doc about an ongoing financial crisis rooted in manipulation and apathy.
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