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  Review by Grégoire Canvel ★★

  is in fact a genius non-fiction work satirizing the well-intentioned but ultimately useless Western activism on marginalized groups, but makes the terrible mistake of thinking it's an earnest legal fight doc. whoops.

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  Review by Michael Friedman

  i’m gonna make mac and cheese for dinner

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  Review by aidan 💖 ★★★★

  FUCK chevron

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  Review by LukeRudd ★★★½

  Crazy how this case just ended a year ago. Makes you think

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  Review by emily ★★★

  Good documentary, but definitely focuses more on emotional appeals than facts. Also, the Internet tells me that Chevron managed to escape paying the $9.5 billion that was awarded to the indigenous people of Ecuador, and Steven Donziger has been disbarred and is currently under house arrest. Maybe David can still beat Goliath, but it seems pretty unlikely

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  Review by Jesser Horowitz ★★★

  I wonder if there will be a sequel where Berlinger talks about how this movie torpedoed the litigation and pretty much guaranteed that the judgment against Chevron will never be enforced.

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  Review by cello ★★★★★

  white people are a PLAGUE and oil companies can all die!!!
  justice for the people of ecuador!!!!!!
  *watched for class

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  Review by FilmApe ★★★★

  Joe Berlinger knows how to craft a villain in his documentaries, and while it seems John Mark Byers from Paradise Lost wasn't a villain after all, I think Berlinger is right on in how Chevron and their representatives are portrayed in this documentary. Rather than attacking the oil industry as a whole, Berlinger is simply showing a single story about the after effects of Chevron's occupation in Ecuador, and the result is a real character driven film. The village lawyer versus Chevron's lawyers is the best part of the film, and I can't get enough of people arguing back and forth with each other. Of course, Chevron's lawyers come across as being complete scum, with the one dude reminding me…

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  Review by Pablo Alonso ★★★½

  Very interesting documentary, classic tale of multinational corporation crushing the indigenous people, and the little guys fighting for justice on a legal process that has now taken 16+ years and with almost a decade to go at least, seems like it would be nearly impossible to win, it requires dedicated self sacrificing and obsessive people and that's what they got, but even then seems like it just won't be enough.

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  Review by bones

  i’m gonna force feed all those texaco representatives the water they’ll be fine

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  Review by naomi

  had to watch for spanish class
  nothing i didnt know before

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  Review by leva

  every doc i watch for this class makes me hate this country more and more