There will be an encore presentation of Wal-Mart, the Movie
this Saturday at 7:30pm at the Fairfield Public Library.
Two weeks ago it was standing room only by 7:35pm.
If you missed it, here’s your chance to catch the buzz.
[TWO THUMBS UP from EBERT & ROEPER; MORE REVIEWS AT BOTTOM.
ROTTENTOMATOES MOVIE WEBSITE GIVES IT A 93% FRESH RATING.]
Brave New Films Presents a Robert Greenwald Film
WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Price takes you into the real lives of workers and their families, business owners and their communities, in an extraordinary journey that will challenge the way you think, feel... and shop.
Fairfield Public Library
Saturday, December 3rd at 7:30 pm
Free Admission
Wal-Mart’s low-wage, low-benefit corporate approach has produced America’s wealthiest family but is society paying the cost for the low everyday prices brought to you by the company with the smiley logo?
The rich are richer than ever. The poor are poorer. And the middle class is on the endangered species list.
Is America’s retail giant helping or hurting the very people it is deriving its wealth from?
WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Price
14 fresh reviews; 1 rotten
RATING: FRESH READING: 93%
(FRESH = 60% or Greater)
<http://www.rottentomatoes.com/click/movie-1153491/reviews.php?critic=columns&sortby=default&page=1&rid=1451699> "With little fanfare, Robert Greenwald has become one of the most incisive activist filmmakers in America." <http://www.rottentomatoes.com/click/movie-1153491/reviews.php?critic=columns&sortby=default&page=1&rid=1451699>
-- Owen Gleiberman <http://www.rottentomatoes.com/author-763/> , ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY <http://www.rottentomatoes.com/source-150/>
<http://www.rottentomatoes.com/click/movie-1153491/reviews.php?critic=columns&sortby=default&page=1&rid=1452353> "Robert Greenwald's documentary makes a devastating case against the largest retailer on the planet." <http://www.rottentomatoes.com/click/movie-1153491/reviews.php?critic=columns&sortby=default&page=1&rid=1452353>
-- Anita Gates <http://www.rottentomatoes.com/author-1010/> , NEW YORK <http://www.rottentomatoes.com/source-337/> TIMES
"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."
-- Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER <http://www.rottentomatoes.com/source-337/>
"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."
-- Kenneth Turan, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"It takes the gleam off those penny-saving bargains."
-- Jack Mathews, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
"Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price lacks the cinematic panache to elevate it above the level of agitprop. But its all too relevant dissection of its subject is well worth paying attention to."
-- Frank Scheck, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER <http://www.rottentomatoes.com/source-395/>
"For all its missteps, the movie powerfully suggests that Wal-Mart is capable of demoralizing a community so thoroughly that it doesn’t have the spirit to carry on its life outside the big box."
-- David Denby, NEW YORKER
"Viewers may not be surprised to learn of Wal-Mart's horrific track record, but they can't deny Greenwald's airtight advocacy."
-- James Crawford, VILLAGE VOICE
"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."
-- John Anderson, VARIETY <http://www.rottentomatoes.com/source-213/>
"Wal-Mart's home office in Bentonville, Ark., can rest easy: Greenwald, as usual, is hysterically preaching to the choir."
-- Lou Lumenick, NEW YORK POST <http://www.rottentomatoes.com/source-466/>
"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."
-- Ernest Hardy, L.A. WEEKLY <http://www.rottentomatoes.com/source-336/>
<http://www.rottentomatoes.com/source-251/>
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