"MASTERFUL. A WICKEDLY FUNNY ALLEGORY ABOUT THE AMERICAN DREAM..."
-THE HUFFINGTON POST
"JAW-DROPPING, FRIGHTENINGLY HILARIOUS"
-NY POST
"GRADE A. SUCCULENTLY ENTERTAINING"
-Entertainment Weekly
"FOUR STARS. COMPULSIVELY WATCHABLE"
-NY Daily News
"3.5 Stars. Beautifully constructed and frequently uproarious."
-STAR TRIBUNE
"GRADE A! SUCCULENTLY ENTERTAINING. The next big documentary-as-cultural touchstone."
-Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
"A SPRAWLING, RICHLY DETAILED STUDY OF AMBITION, DESIRE AND THE WILD SWINGS OF FORTUNE. A gaudy guilty pleasure that is also a piece of trenchant social criticism. If this film is a portrait, it is also a mirror."
-A.O. Scott, NY Times
"**** SPELLBINDING. ATTENTION MUST BE PAID. An appalling, absorbing and improbably affecting portrait."
-Ann Hornaday, Washington Post
"EXCELLENT AND UNEXPECTEDLY NUANCED."
-Sheri Linden, LA Times
"***** STARTLINGLY CANDID. Through a clear lens unclouded by politics or blame, it offers insight into the hazardous American practice of living beyond our means."
-Amy Biancolli, SF Chronicle
"JAW-DROPPING. EYE-OPENING. A FILMMAKING COUP. It combines the soul-revealing artistry of great portraiture and the head-shaking revelations of solid investigative reporting."
-Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
"THERE'S MORE GOING ON HERE THAN CLASSIC DERISION. It prompts us to think hard about what, exactly, we believe we’re entitled to."
-Ty Burr, Boston Globe
"Hilarious and upsetting. Like a Theodore Dreiser novel for our time, infused with the vivid, vulgar spirit of reality TV. It’s often laugh-out-loud funny, but also has elements of profound tragedy and allegory."
-Andrew O’Hehir, Salon
"DELICIOUSLY APPALLING. Their lives take on a surreal, and eerily fascinating, squalor."
-Joe Morgenstern, Wall St. Journal
"FASCINATING. Director Greenfield has crafted a rather brilliant metaphor for the runaway American dream."
-Claudia Puig, USA Today
"A brilliant metaphor for everything screwed up about the U.S. economy and the culture that shaped it."
-David Edelstein, New York
"RIVETING."
-Whitney Matheson, USA Today
"JAW-DROPPING, FRIGHTENINGLY HILARIOUS."
-Lou Lumenick, NY Post
"**** COMPULSIVELY WATCHABLE."
-Elizabeth Weitzman, NY Daily News
"IRRESISTABLE."
-Leah Rozen, The Wrap
"YOU COULDN'T INVENT A BETTER METAPHOR FOR AMERICA’S ECONOMIC INSANITY."
-Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix
"FASCINATING. What ultimately makes the film so intriguing is Jackie herself."
-Tricia Olszewski, Washington City Paper
"UNEXPECTEDLY MOVING."
-Sean Burns, Philadelphia Weekly
"OBSCENELY ENTERTAINING."
-Dennis Harvey, SF Bay Guardian
"Hilarious, infuriating, timely and involving. A barbed comedy of manners; an emotionally acute portrait of a marriage and family on the verge of collapse. Regards its all-too-vilifiable subjects with a complexity that should impress viewers of all economic and political persuasions."
-Justin Chang, Variety
"GRIPPING. A minutely observed implosion of the American Dream, packed with pathos over a predicament not commonly associated with the nation’s reviled 1 percent: losing everything because of the shaky economy."
-Chris Lee, The Daily Beast
"The perfect lens through which to view the bursting of the country’s economic bubble."
-Jeremy Matthews, Paste
"MASTERFUL. A wickedly funny allegory about the American dream, greed, and privilege, the film is packed with quotable one-liners and is entertaining and engrossing throughout."
-Liliana Greenfield-Sanders, The Huffington Post
"A sad, funny film, full of the wonder of opulence and the shock of decay."
-Noel Murray, Onion AV Club
"Greenfield’s vision of a strain of nouveau riche both made and broken by imaginary economics stays with you: it's the wake-up call her subjects deserve."
-Karina Longworth, LA Weekly
"An oddly spellbinding, must-see documentary. A portrait of American cluelessness by way of absurd financial irresponsibility, and a cautionary tale about the cost of living an unexamined life."
-Jeffrey Wells, Hollywood Elsewhere
"Fascinating. A revenge fantasy for the 99 percent."
-Daniel Fienberg, Hitfix
"Hilarious – I was captivated. An equal-parts moving and funny post-recession commentary on the American Dream."
-Christie Ko, ScreenCrave
"A compassionate film that still packs a punch."
-Amanda Mae Meyncke, Film.com
