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'Enron' sorts through the dirty laundry
by John DeFore

An effective summing-up of years of headlines, "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room" gets the facts across while affording an intimate perspective on the scandal's key figures. There's little new to report here — regular newspaper readers will know most of what the movie tells them — but viewers who stopped reading Enron stories in disgust long ago may find they have only partly understood the company's sins. Read the full review

TO SUM UP
A documentary based on the book by Bethany McClean and Peter Elkind, the film tells the story behind the infamous Enron scandal.

FILM FACTS ...

Magnolia Pictures

'Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room'

Director: Alex Gibney
Writing credits: Bethany McLean, Peter Elkind
Run time: 110 minutes
Release date: April 22, 2005
Rating: Unrated.

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READ THE REVIEW

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: A-
"Forget 'The Amityville Horror' and 'The Ring Two.' Here's the scariest movie of the year so far. "

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Austin American-Statesman: 3 of 5 stars
"The movie flirts with the ostentatiousness the firm's executives were condemned for. But it's hard to complain about a documentary that is able to make complicated accounting fraud accessible — engrossing, even — to laypeople."

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The Palm Beach Post: B+
"...a defining film of our times, a morality tale in which simple greed becomes a company's undoing."

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