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"MASTERFUL. A WICKEDLY FUNNY ALLEGORY ABOUT THE AMERICAN DREAM..." -THE HUFFINGTON POST

"JAW-DROPPING, FRIGHTENINGLY HILARIOUS" -NY POST

"GRADE A. SUCCULENTLY ENTERTAINING" -Entertainment Weekly

"FOUR STARS. COMPULSIVELY WATCHABLE" -NY Daily News

"3.5 Stars. Beautifully constructed and frequently uproarious." -STAR TRIBUNE

"GRADE A! SUCCULENTLY ENTERTAINING. The next big documentary-as-cultural touchstone." -Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly

"A SPRAWLING, RICHLY DETAILED STUDY OF AMBITION, DESIRE AND THE WILD SWINGS OF FORTUNE. A gaudy guilty pleasure that is also a piece of trenchant social criticism. If this film is a portrait, it is also a mirror." -A.O. Scott, NY Times

"**** SPELLBINDING. ATTENTION MUST BE PAID. An appalling, absorbing and improbably affecting portrait." -Ann Hornaday, Washington Post

"EXCELLENT AND UNEXPECTEDLY NUANCED." -Sheri Linden, LA Times

"***** STARTLINGLY CANDID. Through a clear lens unclouded by politics or blame, it offers insight into the hazardous American practice of living beyond our means." -Amy Biancolli, SF Chronicle

"JAW-DROPPING. EYE-OPENING. A FILMMAKING COUP. It combines the soul-revealing artistry of great portraiture and the head-shaking revelations of solid investigative reporting." -Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer

"THERE'S MORE GOING ON HERE THAN CLASSIC DERISION. It prompts us to think hard about what, exactly, we believe we’re entitled to." -Ty Burr, Boston Globe

"Hilarious and upsetting. Like a Theodore Dreiser novel for our time, infused with the vivid, vulgar spirit of reality TV. It’s often laugh-out-loud funny, but also has elements of profound tragedy and allegory." -Andrew O’Hehir, Salon

"DELICIOUSLY APPALLING. Their lives take on a surreal, and eerily fascinating, squalor." -Joe Morgenstern, Wall St. Journal

"FASCINATING. Director Greenfield has crafted a rather brilliant metaphor for the runaway American dream." -Claudia Puig, USA Today

"A brilliant metaphor for everything screwed up about the U.S. economy and the culture that shaped it." -David Edelstein, New York

"RIVETING." -Whitney Matheson, USA Today

"JAW-DROPPING, FRIGHTENINGLY HILARIOUS." -Lou Lumenick, NY Post

"**** COMPULSIVELY WATCHABLE." -Elizabeth Weitzman, NY Daily News

"IRRESISTABLE." -Leah Rozen, The Wrap

"YOU COULDN'T INVENT A BETTER METAPHOR FOR AMERICA’S ECONOMIC INSANITY." -Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix

"FASCINATING. What ultimately makes the film so intriguing is Jackie herself." -Tricia Olszewski, Washington City Paper

"UNEXPECTEDLY MOVING." -Sean Burns, Philadelphia Weekly

"OBSCENELY ENTERTAINING." -Dennis Harvey, SF Bay Guardian

"Hilarious, infuriating, timely and involving. A barbed comedy of manners; an emotionally acute portrait of a marriage and family on the verge of collapse. Regards its all-too-vilifiable subjects with a complexity that should impress viewers of all economic and political persuasions." -Justin Chang, Variety

"GRIPPING. A minutely observed implosion of the American Dream, packed with pathos over a predicament not commonly associated with the nation’s reviled 1 percent: losing everything because of the shaky economy." -Chris Lee, The Daily Beast

"The perfect lens through which to view the bursting of the country’s economic bubble." -Jeremy Matthews, Paste

"MASTERFUL. A wickedly funny allegory about the American dream, greed, and privilege, the film is packed with quotable one-liners and is entertaining and engrossing throughout." -Liliana Greenfield-Sanders, The Huffington Post

"A sad, funny film, full of the wonder of opulence and the shock of decay." -Noel Murray, Onion AV Club

"Greenfield’s vision of a strain of nouveau riche both made and broken by imaginary economics stays with you: it's the wake-up call her subjects deserve." -Karina Longworth, LA Weekly

"An oddly spellbinding, must-see documentary. A portrait of American cluelessness by way of absurd financial irresponsibility, and a cautionary tale about the cost of living an unexamined life." -Jeffrey Wells, Hollywood Elsewhere

"Fascinating. A revenge fantasy for the 99 percent." -Daniel Fienberg, Hitfix

"Hilarious – I was captivated. An equal-parts moving and funny post-recession commentary on the American Dream." -Christie Ko, ScreenCrave