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The Informant!

2009

Steven Soderbergh

Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, Melanie Lynskey, Joel McHale ...

5.5

8,469

Comedy. Thriller. Drama The U.S. government decides to go after an agri-business big corporation with a price-fixing accusation, based on the evidence submitted by their star witness, vice president turned informant Mark Whitacre (Matt Damon). A rising star at agri-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Whitacre suddenly turns whistleblower. Even as he exposes his company's multi-national price-fixing conspiracy to the FBI, Whitacre envisions himself ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"[The film’s hyperreal intentions] will inevitably put some viewers off, but for others will provide an amusing, original angle"	NEU
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Persuasively played by Matt Damon (...) 'The Informant!' is fascinating in the way it reveals two levels of events, not always visible to each other or to the audience (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	J.R. Jones Chicago Reader	"I liked the movie quite a bit, but by the end I felt as if I were at a live TV show with a blinking sign ordering me to LAUGH"	NEU
United Kingdom	Kim Newman Empire	"It sets out to be less pompous than similar films, which inevitably means it feels less substantial (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"There is clever method in the madness of Soderbergh (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Kirk Honeycutt The Hollywood Reporter	"A comedy about things that aren't really funny. With the right tone, you can maybe pull this off, but Soderbergh chooses to throw all subtlety aside."	NEG
United States	Tasha Robinson AV Club	"'The Informant!' chooses to earn its exclamation point with giggles as well as shock, and the results are thoroughly entertaining."	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"This strange and interesting story should have been told without exclamation marks and other wackiness (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEU

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