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Crude
Directed by
Joe Berlinger
Not Rated
2009
1h 45m
Documentary
7.4
95%
85%
6.4
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The story of a lawsuit by tens of thousands of Ecuadorans against Chevron over contamination of the Ecuadorean Amazon.
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Cast of Crude
Rafael Correa
Self - President of Ecuador
Hugo Chávez
Self
Trudie Styler
Self
Lupita De Heredia
Self - Amazon Defense Fund
Amy Goodman
Self - Democracy Now
Joe Berlinger
Director / Producer / Director Of Photography
Michael Bonfiglio
Producer / Director Of Photography
Richard Stratton
Producer
J.R. DeLeon
Producer
Pocho Álvarez
Director Of Photography
Juan Diego Pérez Arias
Director Of Photography
Alyse Ardell Spiegel
Editor
Wendy Blackstone
Original Music Composer
Crude Ratings & Reviews
Variety
Dennis Harvey
An engrossing case for justice.
Chicago Reader
Cliff Doerksen
A gripping, multifaceted thriller about media politics, global economics, and legal infighting. Wherever your sympathies fall, this may teach you a lot about the way the modern world works.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
One has to wonder if oil industry executives are concerned about the release of Joe Berlinger's damning documentary.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
What Crude does best is take us behind the scenes and show in often candid detail how campaigns are waged, tactics decided on and strategies prioritized.
Washington Post
John Anderson
As the film very eloquently implies, when the greater good is defined as profits, and a lack of culpability is proportionate to your number of shareholders, well . . . a lot of petroleum-soaked chickens will be coming home to roost.
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Chris Hewitt
An elegantly structured, horrifying film that shows the vanishing rainforest may be the least of the Amazon's worries.
Oregonian
Stan Hall
While the audience may see smoking guns in every oily soil sample and every sick kid, Crude is only a progress report of a case that might last until well into the decade, the sordid details of which are still, pardon the pun, spilling out.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
At first Crude looks like one more environmental agit-doc intended to outrage and inspire. Director Joe Berlinger is no doctrinaire hack, though.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
If you ever had doubts about the impact that celebrities can have on such a David-and-Goliath struggle, Berlinger methodically removes them.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
It's a David-and-Goliath tale, full of anger and disturbing accusation, but it's also inspiring.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
It will certainly remain in your mind the next time you stop for gas.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Powerful and powerfully upsetting.
San Francisco Chronicle
Walter V. Addiego
No film could convey all the complexities of the case -- what Crude does is air the plaintiffs' claims and show the lawyers at work.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Here's a powerhouse of a documentary that makes you feel mad as hell and unwilling to take it anymore.
AV Club
Noel Murray
Crude is remarkably clear-eyed in the way it shows how even people on the right side of a cause only succeed if they're willing to play a little dirty.
The Hollywood Reporter
Eric Monder
Involving doc about the devastating impact of oil exploration on Ecuador's rainforest community.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
Mr. Berlinger has both a strong narrative instinct and a keen eye for incongruous, evocative and powerful images.
Village Voice
Scott Foundas
Joe Berlinger's remarkable documentary, Crude, recounts an infuriating litany of South American exploitation, backroom glad-handing, and bureaucratic dead ends.
Slant Magazine
Fernando F. Croce
Crude is both a tribute to human-rights tenacity and a sobering account of the multinational-Moloch greed that can keep justice in limbo.
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Edelstein
Berlinger doesn't counter Chevron's counter charges with facts and figures. With footage of petrochemical-sludge swamps and babies covered with flaming sores, he doesn't especially need to.
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