Synopsis
An unsettling and eye-opening Wall Street horror story about Chinese companies, the American stock market, and the opportunistic greed behind the biggest heist you've never heard of.
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Cast
- Dan DavidHimself
- Matthew WiechertHimself
- Carson BlockHimself
- Jim ChanosHimself
- Soren AandahlHimself
- Maj SoueidnnHimself
- Alexandra StevensonHerself
- Crocker CoulsonHimself
- Dune LawrenceHerself
- Drew BernsteinHimself
Recommendations
- 90
The Hollywood Reporter
Docs like Jed Rothstein's excellent The China Hustle present us with such frequent occasions for outrage that, in the interest of fairness, it's time for a few top documentarians to assemble a five-minute disclaimer to run in front of each new exposé. - 80
Variety
Jed Rothstein’s wildly entertaining documentary The China Hustle blows the lid off another multibillion-dollar heist built on complex financial instruments and a whole lot of smoke and mirrors. - 75
San Francisco Chronicle
A brisk, entertaining documentary that shows how the world of investment works. - 75
Boston Globe
At a time when financial regulations have been gutted, stock market indexes reel, and trade wars threaten, Jed Rothstein’s slick and revealing documentary The China Hustle should only add to the anxiety and gloom. - 70
Los Angeles Times
[An] accessible, persuasive, often amusing look at how investments in dubious Chinese companies gave way to crisis-level losses for average American stockholders in the wake of the 2008 financial disaster — and beyond — and made some U.S. bankers and lawyers and Chinese executives a bundle. - 63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
In horror movies, monsters often lose their power to terrify once they come fully into the frame. But as Rothstein reveals the full shape and size of an ogre that has slipped into our financial markets, just try to calm your growing dread. - 63
RogerEbert.com
The China Hustle is not interested in offering a crumb of hope, thereby enabling the frustration it will inevitably arouse in viewers to dissolve into apathy once the credits roll. - 60
Village Voice
Rothstein’s film, for the most part, is more well-reported exposé than it is cliché-driven agitprop, a film that blows the whistle on ongoing financial crimes.
