Freakonomics

Name: Freakonomics
Director: Alex Gibney
Released: 2010

Synopsis

Some of the world's most innovative documentary filmmakers will explore the hidden side of everything.

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Philadelphia Inquirer
Freakonomics is uneven, and even a little cloying, but its sum effect isn't bad.
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The A.V. Club
Like the 2005 bestseller that inspired it, the movie version of Freakonomics is fleet and accessible, an enjoyably light and lively pop artifact aimed at bringing some unusual economic theories to the masses.
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Movieline
Best in show is the final chapter, by "Jesus Camp" directors Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing. "Can A Ninth Grader Be Bribed To Succeed?" is as straightforward a title as the others are oblique.
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Variety
This frisky adaptation of the Steven Levitt-Stephen Dubner bestseller on human behavior by the numbers adds up to a revelatory trip into complex, innovative ideas and altered perspectives on how people think.
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Time Out
Despite a roster of off-kilter documentarians each directing an episode, Freakonomics only partly delivers the sense of traipsing into uncharted territory.
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Chicago Reader
The end result is more like a supermarket on Saturday afternoon. The content is engaging, though.
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NPR
Freakonomics' commercial success reflected the once-fashionable notion that economics could explain, well, everything.
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Entertainment Weekly
As a movie, Freakonomics is like Jujubes for the brain - it starts to get cloying halfway through the box.