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Chasing Madoff Review

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Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 3.0
    52

    out of 100

    Metascore®
    Mixed or average reviews
    based on a weighted average of all
    critic review scores.

  • 40

    out of 100

    Village Voice

    Too bad Prosserman can't trust his material: Overloading the screen with aesthetic dross, the director offers up tiresome symbolic imagery of blood-soaked hands, burning money, and out-of-focus documents. Rather than amping up the intensity, these fast-cut sequences prove disastrously distracting.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    Variety

    Chasing Madoff is a useful reminder that all is far from well with our financial institutions, which continue to lobby for less regulation rather than more. But the human element of the film is so weirdly distracting it often deflects from its primary target.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times Robert Abele

    The unintended take-away is that you can grasp why the Securities and Exchange Commission - terribly negligent though it was in investigating Madoff - might dismiss the claims of someone so theatrically odd.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    The New York Times

    The film is frustratingly uneven in its presentation.

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  • 63

    out of 100

    Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

    Chasing Madoff is not a very good documentary, but it's a very devastating one.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt

    In a sense, this is not a financial thriller so much as a financial mystery. Which gets a bit lost in the movie's stylized presentation.

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  • 83

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

    Jeff Prosserman's riveting documentary takes a question that haunted the Bernie Madoff scandal - how did he fool everyone for so long? - and answers it with a decisive "He didn't."

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