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2009
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The Informant!
Positive Reviews
88
Negative reviews
14
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3.5
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4.5
Screenwriter Scott Z. Burns (The Bourne Ultimatum) draws from Kurt Eichenwalds dense true crime book The Informant for the story of biochemist Mark Wh ..
Av Club
1.5
But Soderbergh isnt really interested in the scandal, that Whitacre uncovered one of the most high profile price fixing scams in American history.
Den Of Geek
3.0
Sadly, that means that the films humor generally comes at the expense of its protagonist.
Austin Chronicle
4.0
Soderbergh and writer Scott Z Burns have based the film largely on the muckraking thriller by New York Times journalist Kurt Eichenwald, but they are ..
Time Out
3.5
Perhaps played straight, it would have come off as the darkly humorous and sadly ironic character piece it should be.
Screen Daily
1.5
up as a Peter Sellers style sixties comedy Too clever by half for mainstream audiences,The Informant!
Screen Daily
3.5
0 A feature film about a true, global price fixing scheme for a corn product is not the sort of fare that inspires interest and laughs.
Collider
4.5
He thinks hes a super smart super spy, but he cant help but futz wearing a wire, or exaggerate whats going on.
Collider
4.5
Thats what the FBI believes and thats what we believe because, by golly, look at him!
Collider
5.0
Mark Whitacre was the highest ranking executive in U.S. history to blow the whistle in a case of corporate fraud.He ended up with a prison sentence th ..
Rogerebert
5.0
Wisely, Soderbergh doesnt play the material strictly for laughs and as a result, his deadpan take makes the material even funnier than if he had.
E Film Critic
2.0
Throughout his career he has walked the line between crowd pleasing franchise fare and crowd befuddling experimentalism.
Telegraph
2.5
Still boring.On paper, The Informant! is maybe the most boring movie of the year.
Cinema Blend
3.0
The efficient Whitacre is happy to help (Its like a Crichton novel!).
Ny Daily News
3.8
Thats definitely a risk with The Informant! , a bait and switch film that promises caper comedy with silly hair and dated fashion costumes, and ends u ..
The Globe And Mail
3.8
But if there are no villains, and a dubious hero, who is getting stung.Some viewers will feel that its them.
Philly
4.0
Instead of telling this story straight, as Michael Mann did with a tobacco company case in The Insider, Soderbergh grounds it in an incredibly clever ..
Spirituality And Practice
4.0
Unlike the directors usual organic effortsin which great style never results in overstylizedThe Informant! feels overamped from start to shrugging fin ..
Village Voice
3.8
He sometimes seems utterly clueless, and other times hes remarkably clever, and this duality keeps us watching.
Combust Ible Celluloid
2.5
Matt Damon gives a sure handed comic performance as the ingratiating, self dramatizing businessman, and Steven Soderbergh imparts a brisk, breezy pace ..
Chicago Reader
4.4
Become a fan on Facebook Follow on Twitter Review by Mark Dujsik Surely, this didnt happen.It couldnt have happened.
Mark Reviews Movies
3.8
The dark comedy is based on the real life much publicized story of the highest ranking corporate whistle blower in American history.
Usa Today
3.5
It refuses to take sides.Like a Kubrick film, it examines people dispassionately, as a scientist looking at an insect.
Lariat
3.8
But hes a funny toon, and Soderberghs light, buoyant touch makes the film worth listening in on.
Eric Ds Nider
2.0
When the arrest warrants are handed down, ADMs executive staff led by Vice Chairman Mick Andreas (TOM PAPA) and Head of Corporate Security Mark Chevir ..
Screen It
2.0
But pity and contempt dont translate into laughs; theres no ingenuity in Whitacres fraud, and for bare faced cheek it has nothing on our own MPs expen ..
Independent
4.4
Laugh you will at The Informant!, but its way too real to laugh off.
Rolling Stone
4.0
An engaging corporate comedy drama that continually catches us (and the characters) off guard. Its great fun to watch, and has a strongly resonant kic ..
Shadows On The Wall
4.0
This works perfectly and Soderbergh gets the tone exactly right, with the increasingly hilarious plot twists cleverly drawing attention to underlying ..
View London
3.1
Ultimately, it wouldnt have taken much to fashion The Informant! into a perfectly workable drama.
News Day
3.8
Damon is an agile comic performer, and Soderbergh knows how to serve him up without losing sight of the ultimate seriousness behind it all.
Cs Monitor
2.0
The real life tale is fascinating, but Soderberghs handling of it is a misfire.
Film Journal
3.1
Soderberghs pushing the limits of our indulgence here, spinning a story of white collar greed and bipolar delusions into intentionally shallow pop far ..
Boston
4.0
And the quirk factor.Well, that transcends the Coens in esoterica, if nothing else.
Mountain X
4.4
But Soderberghs portrait of his life is a detailed report on beige bourgeois banality.
Star Tribune
5.0
Its a confident, jaunty film that leaves us feeling sympathetic towards both the federal investigators and Whitacres devious associates.
Guardian
2.0
Oddly, Whitacres nerdy self delusion and his stolid midwestern complacency make him sound like a character from an Alexander Payne movie, and I wonder ..
Guardian
3.5
As a film, The Informant! should be considered part of a certain genre, yet to even state what that genre is would be akin to offering up a spoiler bu ..
Reel Talk Reviews
3.8
Its not an entirely successful gambit, partially because Soderberghs tricky tightrope walk between comedy and pathos makes the film feel hamstrung at ..
Q Network
3.0
The film is quirky and eccentric rather than laugh out loud funny, mildly amusing rather than fully involving.
Daily Mail
3.5
who has quietly and steadily turned into a great Everyman actor is in nimble control as he reveals his characters deep crazies.
Ew
3.0
While amusing rather than hilarious, it ought to establish Matt Damon as a star character actor.
Empire
4.0
Based on a true story, this movie is never what it seems.It reads espionage but winds up a farce.
Common Sense Media
4.0
Whats The Deal: Its recent historical white collar crime drama, but its also not that.Its character driven comedy, but the funny stuff is so bone dry ..
Movies
5.0
Its a vertiginous experience that grows increasingly hilarious, and the joke is on us.
New Yorker
2.5
The Informant! says that people who do good or ill have complex motives for their actions, and that not everyone is knowable, instantly or ever.
Time
2.5
Soderbergh may set out to expose the resonance behind a fabulists giggly ruses, but in the end its the audience who gets duped.
Slant Magazine
3.5
And Damon gives one of the best performances of his career here, a sneak up on you the dupe as duper narrator.
Reeling Reviews
4.5
It all keeps you so off balance, in the right way a movie should, that by the time you realize that perhaps the situation isnt exactly what you think ..
Flickfilosopher
3.0
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Total Film
3.8
The resulting movie has its share of fun moments and is full of the absurd but its probably easier to admire for its craft than it is to enjoy as conv ..
ReelViews
3.5
Although not a blockbuster, The Informant is an interesting, diverting film.
The Atlantic
4.0
At times The Informant! feels a little too proud of its cleverness at turning a serious story into a quirky comedy.
Hollywood
5.0
...film making at its best...driven by Marvin Hamlischs spectacular score.
Tony Medley
2.2
The problem is that its insulting to be lied to, especially when the stakes are so high.Satire is not a good genre for Soderbergh.
Coles Mithey
2.0
While the title may promise a straight ahead drama, that bit of faux jaunty emphasis shows that nothing of the sort is going on.
Los Angeles Times
2.5
If you guessed that it becomes highly intrusive and annoying after a spell, pat yourself on the back.And if youre taking a naturally dramatic story an ..
Aisle Seat
1.3
But viewers prepared for a slow moving and thoughtful exploration of loss will be rewarded with one of the best films of the year.
Reel Film
3.8
But the real humour comes from watching Damon in a role that should be remembered when the gold is being handed out.
The Star
3.0
This fact based, 80s period comedy drama is just too talky for its own good.
Deseret News
4.0
And pays the price.Its really a sad story, but with redeeming qualities . .
Urban Cine File
4.0
On the contrary, his mild manner conceals a endlessly surprising inner life.
The Age
4.5
Dont be surprised if the heat around Damon for this performance builds to Oscar nom proportions.
Varia Gate
3.0
Damon brings a schoolboy innocence which makes the character endearing as well as funny.
Digital Spy
3.8
The Informant! is more amusing than laugh out loud hilarious, but is never boring.
New York Post
3.5
The Informant!s capacity to acknowledge both the malign and the good natured sides of this tragic individual makes it an absorbing tale.
Abc
4.0
Plotwise, its difficult to say much more without giving away the good stuff, but the escalating absurdist content is matched at every turn by the film ..
The Stranger
1.9
None of it is funny.The Informant! would have been better informed with a page one rewrite.
Dustin Put Man
4.5
Like being ordered to have long hair and smile on stage, but wondering how to smile with a trombone in your mouth.Or repeatedly told youre not good en ..
News Blaze
1.3
Damon Stars in Real Life Case of Corporate Whistleblower Who Flim Flammed FBI In 1992, Mark Whitacre (Matt Damon) was a highly regarded president of a ..
News Blaze
3.5
Its a true story (based on a straight ahead nonfiction thriller by Kurt Eichenwald) and a hard one to make sense of, so Soderbergh simply takes us for ..
Hollywood And Fine
2.5
Sadly, The Informant! never earns its exclamation point.Its more of an ellipses motion picture.
Brian Or Ndorf
5.0
This effective spin on The Secret Life of Walter Mitty carried a timely bite of bad big business behavior.
The Filmy Ap
3.1
And by the end of the film, its more thats it than thats it!.Much credit needs to go to Mr. Damon, whose beautifully nuanced take on wide eyed naivete ..
Big Picture Big Sound
2.9
Too many of the attempts at humor fall flat while the dramatic and thrilling elements become increasingly absurd.
Nyc Movie Guru
4.3
In the era of modern corporate malfeasance that sort of behavior is hardly a surprise any more, and it sounds like a strong basis for a solid thriller ..
ComingSoon
2.0
And with the Smothers Brothers cast as an ADM executive and a judge (with the attendant Limey style joke on counterculture sellouts now pulling the st ..
Film Comment
3.0
Synopsis With the debts piling up, French ex pat and father Marc Duval (Gilles Lellouche) agrees to be a spy for French customs in Gibraltar.Quickly g ..
Sky
4.0
This is surely one of the best movies ever to spin a lively chronicle of trust and second guessing from purported manipulation of a basic amino acid.
Sbs
3.0
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4.4
Its a metamorphosis that all the sharp acting and swishy lounge jazz in the world cant quite accommodate.
Chron
3.0
Damons rarely been better as a seemingly normal guy who you never really get a handle on, but the light toned narrative could certainly be snappier.
Metro
3.8
A late, game changing revelation about him proves that a story this absurd couldnt possibly be fiction.Or at least not all of it.
Scene Stealers
4.2
There are so many twists and turns to Steven Soderberghs deceptively light hearted dark comedy The Informant! that by the time the end credits roll, i ..
Decent Films
3.0
Its one of the best comedic performances of the year and certainly one of the most layered.
Streaming Quickflix
3.5
Mr. Damon plays it admirably straight, for the most part, thereby serving as a counterweight to the clamorous self delight that surrounds him. Unfortu ..
Wsj
3.5
Ask the makers of Fuel and No Impact Man, the latest in 2009s string of pro Earth, pro organic, anticorporate docs.Either one is more worthy of your t ..
East Bay Express
3.8
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Tiny Url
3.0
This film easily fulfils, but never really exceeds, expectations.
Fan The Fire Magazine
2.0
And there still museums with pay what you wish admission, if not every day, then on certain days weekly or monthly.You just have to know who offers wh ..
New York Time Out
3.8
The movie is deemed a dark comedy probably mostly for the amusing portrayal of Damon in the real life persona, but it could have easily, and perhaps m ..
Reel Talk Online
3.0
Soderbergh plays this story straight, relying on the amateurish silliness of Whitacre and the tales escalating absurdity to deliver laughs.
Orlando Sentinel
4.4
At once darkly funny, theres a line of tragedy that runs throughout as well.
Illinois Times
2.5
Still, the picture hits its notes with a deadened manic focus that siphons the heart and humanity out of the story.
Critics Notebook
2.5
In some ways Damon seems to have captured Whitacres bizarre gung ho naivete and all American boy charm.
Kpbs
4.0
If Soderberghs offbeat approach seems alienating at first, the films second half is loaded with hilariously bizarre revelations, which are actually tr ..
Kc Active
3.0
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Cine Rina
3.6
It takes a situation grounded in reality and projects onto it a surreal light.
D Cist
3.0
After establishing himself as a top notch action man in the Bourne thrillers, here Damon reminds us that he doesnt need spectacular spills and thrills ..
Daily Record
4.0
Its a tale in which nothing can be assumed and most of the fun of the ride is being sucked into a narrative thats true but utterly bizarre.
Daily Record
4.4
In many ways, it feels like the movie that Tony Gilroys corporate espionage comedy, Duplicity, wishes it had been: Mr. Soderbergh plays with structure ..
Washington Times
4.0
What The Informant! knows is that crook is just a word. In capitalist society, it can be applied to everyone.
Mubi
4.0
The overall effect creates a soundscape that seems to have more in common with a 60s Disney comedy or long running gameshow than a drama doc where jus ..
James Wegg Review
3.1
The result is entertaining, but a bit glib, verging on disposable.
Jackson Ville
4.4
Product warning: Do not expect the wild farce promised by the ad campaign.
Maki At The Movies Blogspo ..
4.0
They create a fantasy world of heroism and entitlement that Whitacre surely wants to believe and absolutely wants the rest of the world to understand ..
Seanax
4.0
The Informant! is an inspired social satire, a near perfect single carat diamond in an age of mindless movie bling.
Art Forum
4.5
Fans for any reason expecting a leapfrog over past achievements will be disappointed.
Stop Smiling Online
3.0
Zombieland With its brain seeking tongue wedged firmly in its blood soaked cheek, Zombieland embraces its violence and language warnings to make a tru ..
Blogs Smh
4.0
With Damon, they share something more exciting than looks: a slow burning intelligence that leaves us feeling both unsettled and seduced.
Marie Claire
2.5
Whats surprising about the film isnt how silly it gets, but how accurate it apparently remains as it gets sillier and sillier.
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