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Merchants of Doubt
Directed by
Robert Kenner
PG-13
2014
1h 36m
Documentary
7.6
85%
79%
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A documentary that looks at pundits-for-hire who present themselves as scientific authorities as they speak about topics like toxic chemicals, pharmaceuticals and climate change.
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Cast of Merchants of Doubt
Patricia Callahan
Herself
Matthew Crawford
Himself
Stanton A. Glantz
Himself
Katharine Heyhoe
Herself
Robert Kenner
Director / Writer / Producer
Kim Roberts
Writer
Melissa Robledo
Producer
Merchants of Doubt Ratings & Reviews
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Williams
A movie about manufactured consensus would be a vital public service. But "Merchants of Doubt" isn't quite that movie.
Austin Chronicle
William Goss
...largely preaches to the left-leaning choir with plenty of hissable sound bites and a generally glib tone that undercuts an otherwise understandable sense of righteous indignation.
Detroit News
Tom Long
Aside from an eye-opening investigation of useless and harmful flame repellents pumped into furniture, it sticks to climate change without broadening its scope to other examples of corporate spinning, which must be plentiful.
Newsday
Rafer Guzman
A compelling expos of professional propagandists, though the movie itself is not agenda-free.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
You leave "Merchants of Doubt," as you do any good muckraking documentary, both fascinated and enraged ...
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Merchants of Doubt shouldn't be a hard sell. The fact that it is should make you very mad.
Boston Globe
Subtle, it's not. But it is effective.
America Magazine
John Anderson
That money is the root of all evil is hardly news, but Kenner's documentary is more than just a plaint against corruption. He is, for one thing, a first-rate filmmaker.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
When "Merchants of Doubt" isn't making you mad, it makes you very simply, and overwhelmingly, sad.
San Francisco Chronicle
David Lewis
When (and before) the end credits roll, you will probably feel a sense of outrage - and helplessness.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
The jury's back in on the PR hacks who sow confusion and manufacture ambiguity in the public debate over climate change: they're guilty of crimes against not only science and their fellow citizens but humanity itself.
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Edelstein
What Merchants of Doubt makes clearest is that these issues shouldn't be political.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
The fact that some of these spinmeisters proudly base their method on the machinations of tobacco-industry lobbyists is doubly damning.
Film Comment Magazine
Amy Taubin
The subject of Merchants of Doubt is the catastrophe of global climate change, which is engulfing us even faster than predicted. Kenner doesn't waste time proving, in this terse, brilliantly argued movie, that climate change is happening.
RogerEbert.com
Matt Zoller Seitz
This is a huge, unwieldy topic, and the filmmakers do an admirable job of condensing their information and making it comprehensible.
Movie Mom
Nell Minow
No matter what you think about tobacco, climate change, or fire retardants, this is an essential film because it addresses the key issue of trust.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
[It] means to make people angry, and to make them think. It will surely do the former. I'd like to think it will do the latter.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
Informative and infuriating ...
AV Club
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
In this glossy informational mode of filmmaking, organization is everything, and director Robert Kenner (Food, Inc.) isn't much of a storyteller.
New York Post
Sara Stewart
Tobacco companies have fallen far in recent years, but this zingy documentary explores how very high their p.r. machines set the bar for public misdirection.
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