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Payback
Directed by
Jennifer Baichwal
Not Rated
2012
82m
Documentary
6.3
73%
56%
5.8
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An adaptation of Margaret Atwood's book examining the metaphor of indebtedness.
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Cast of Payback
Jennifer Baichwal
Director
Margaret Atwood
Writer
Nick Hector
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Payback Ratings & Reviews
Maven's Nest
Nora Lee Mandel
Brings to life serious discussions of philosophical issues through impassioned case studies [but] works too hard for an upbeat ending.
Spirituality & Practice
Mary Ann Brussat
An earnest and edifying documentary on the philosophical and ethical ramifications of debt as something owed.
Boston Globe
Mark Feeney
There's a splendid audacity in Baichwal trying to bring to the screen something as idea-driven as Atwood's book.
East Bay Express
Kelly Vance
Makes similar points as several other docs, but in a more labored and tedious way.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
Baichwal could have devoted a single film to just BP's disgraceful behavior.
NPR
Mark Jenkins
Ultimately, this intriguing but scattershot movie turns on the incompatibility of two worldviews - the corporate-financial vs. the environmental-spiritual.
Film Journal International
David Noh
Three real-life horror stories are linked by the theme of debt in this informative but sometimes wandering doc.
AV Club
Noel Murray
Adapting non-fiction to cinema can be tricky even for a documentarian, but Jennifer Baichwal makes a game effort at turning Margaret Atwood's book-length essay Payback: Debt And The Shadow Side Of Wealth into a movie.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
You can't help feeling that the movie owed its subject - and its audience - a bit more.
Village Voice
Mark Holcomb
Cinematic globe-trotting doesn't necessarily trump reading a good book, it turns out; then again, more movies should be burdened with the flaw of being too intellectually curious.
Slant Magazine
Bill Weber
This doc on the many forms of human debt, though often frustratingly broad, offers a path to balancing civilization's ledger with a hard-nosed brand of altruism.
Variety
Rob Nelson
A rarefied conceptual docu that will appeal to a limited but highly appreciative audience.
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