Generation Wealth

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, 46% Rotten Tomatometer Score
  • Generation Wealth has admirable aims, but never manages to focus long enough to put together the type of cogent argument made by director Lauren Greenfield's earlier works.
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    Jessica KiangThe Playlist
    What we get is a film that is most fun when observing the cautionary lifestyles of the once-rich and adjacent-to-famous, but most insightful when it pulls outs of the fast lane and Greenfield's eye turns inward on her own life.
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    Robert Daniels812filmreviews
    Greenfield's film is all over the place, and is more stream of consciousness than informative or even entertaining.
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    Joseph WalshTime Out
    Bleak and compelling viewing.
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    Matthew LickonaSan Diego Reader
    Scattered and self-indulgent, a career retrospective in search of a coherent theme.
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    Danielle WhiteAustin Chronicle
    The moral lesson of "spend more time with loved ones" is pretty weak sauce if I'm being honest: It's nothing more than an unheeded warning sign on the edge of the diamond-encrusted road straight to ruin.
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    Kate TaylorGlobe and Mail
    Greenfield's titillating survey of America's grossest obsessions, from plastic surgery to porn, only flirts with economic and social context, mainly limiting itself to observation and personalization.
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    Richard CrouseRichard Crouse
    Greenfield wants us to know that greed, despite what Gordon Gekko so famously said, is not good.
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    Bianca GarnerIn Their Own League
    This documentary really puts things in perspective for you. Money doesn't equal happiness.
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    David BaxBattleship Pretension
    Greenfield is aware of the irony. But she's also aware of the pain underneath that statement, encouraging us to lay down our smirks and quips and find it in ourselves to feel it too...
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    Dan BuffaKSDK News (St. Louis)
    I wouldn't avoid this documentary like the plague, but I would save it for home viewing when you think about investing money with a mysterious stock broker.
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