Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price 2005

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: Wal-Mart says director Robert Greenwald's film is misleading and inaccurate, but it's hard to dispute the personal accounts from former Wal-Mart employees who speak from experience. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Advocacy journalism at its most unsparing, and it demands to be seen, discussed, argued with, and acted upon. Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Greenwald has shrewdly chosen not to go with classic talking head types like economists, academics and journalists. Instead he talked to current and former Wal-Mart employees, including several with a dozen or more years with the company. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: With little fanfare, Robert Greenwald has become one of the most incisive activist filmmakers in America. Read more

Ernest Hardy, L.A. Weekly: Try though Greenwald might to not end things on a defeatist note, one observation from early in the film lingers: What Wal-Mart obliterates in small communities can never be replaced or regained. Read more

Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: It takes the gleam off those penny-saving bargains. Read more

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John Anderson, Variety: Whatever Greenwald lacks in style he makes up for with a deluge of facts and figures and a populist feel that make his movies, this one included, accessible even to the most politically naive. Read more

James Crawford, Village Voice: Viewers may not be surprised to learn of Wal-Mart's horrific track record, but they can't deny Greenwald's airtight advocacy. Read more