Critic Reviews

• Tom Keogh, Seattle Times

  Prosserman wisely skirts the esoterica of high finance, though he cleverly uses good visual devices to suggest the shocking scope of Madoff's crimes.

• Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle

  If you're wondering why so many people are cynical about Wall Street, the government and the system in general, "Chasing Madoff" tells you.

• Tirdad Derakhshani, Philadelphia Inquirer

  Viewers get very little about Madoff himself. While the film is primarily about Markopolos, it makes little sense without much insight into his nemesis.

• Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

  "Chasing Madoff" is not a very good documentary, but it's a very devastating one.

• David Denby, New Yorker

  The hero has a colorless, off-rhythm voice, dead eyes, disorderly hair. He's not, we gather, an imaginative man, but, a religious Greek Orthodox and a former Army officer, he's propelled by a strong sense of rectitude, an ethos of duty.

• Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger

  The film never proves that Madoff was in league with mobsters. It doesn't even detail a single threat against Markopolos, his family or his friends.

• Christopher Long, Movie Metropolis

  When the officials getting paid to do the job failed miserably in their duties, it was the crazy guy who stood as the public's last and only line of defense

• Kelly Vance, East Bay Express

  Well constructed but standard-brand "outrage doc."

• Frank Swietek, One Guy's Opinion

  If you want a factual primer on Madoff's crimes, you should look elsewhere. But as a portrait of an unusual man, 'Chasing Madoff' is flawed but fascinating.

• Cynthia Fuchs, PopMatters

  Chasing Madoff argues that Bernie Madoff was more typical of systemic abuses than deviant.

• Calvin Wilson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

  The film may leave some viewers even more confused about the Madoff affair than they were in the first place.

• Gary Thompson, Philadelphia Daily News

  A profile of Ponzi-scheme whistle-blowers who tried, for a decade, to interest the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in Bernie Madoff's transparent and ruinous fraud scheme.

• Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice

  A terrible documentary that has sheds very little on the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme scandal.

• Nora Lee Mandel, Film-Forward.com

  Markopolos goes on and on. . to seem monomaniacal. . . that any rational major investor should have suspected [but] he deserves his victory lap.

• Liz Braun, Jam! Movies

  Chasing Madoff is an interesting story. Too bad it's such a mediocre movie.

• James Verniere, Boston Herald

  'Madoff' Gripping Tale of SEC Malfeasance

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