American Factory - Movie Reviews

The documentary gains depth when it dives into the company's search for profit at the workers expense and takes a critical look at the capitalist system. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Jul 19, 2023

I would say it has some political notion and delivers some interesting divisions between the East and the West. Yet it adds very little to the art of making a documentary and at least trying to make it appealing to the eye. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Jun 23, 2022

It leaves you reeling from the complex, unresolvable cultural dynamics at play in our present and future globalization.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 22, 2022

It's a fascinating view of consumerism, the American workforce, culture clashes, and how people can connect with each other despite seemingly insurmountable obstacles.

Full Review | Dec 29, 2021

Episode 47: Doc Talk Part 3 / Hail Satan? / American Factory / Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese / Honeyland / The Image Book

Full Review | Original Score: 76/100 | Oct 18, 2021

And, ironically, we wonder which regime is the really socialist one! [Full Review in Spanish]

Full Review | Sep 19, 2020

It's sad, bleak, and humiliating.

Full Review | Sep 16, 2020

This level of brutal exploitation is once again becoming the norm in the US...

Full Review | Aug 6, 2020

This documentary speaks to everyone - those on the factory floor and the CEO ... It shows both sides and lets you make up your own mind.

Full Review | Jul 15, 2020

What's remarkable about the American Factory is its reluctance to take sides in this picturesque duel of cultural conquests, and its commitment to exposing the labor exploitation. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Jul 6, 2020

The unflinching examination is a bit of a mirror to the face and a gripping drama of where we are and may be heading.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 27, 2020

The filmmaking does not advocate; it shows, never tells, and poses many more questions than it can answer. Some disturbing realities about the struggle for dignity in work emerge from what we witness.

Full Review | Feb 27, 2020

Could not have been more timely.

Full Review | Feb 21, 2020

Indeed, race relations seem to be a recurring theme, but one the filmmakers refuse to address head-on.

Full Review | Feb 6, 2020

Rarely does a sober, even-keeled reckoning come along to illuminate the human suffering of creative destruction while gently acknowledging that this is the way it has to be. Such a portrayal is American Factory, a heartbreaking Netflix documentary.

Full Review | Feb 4, 2020

Billionaire from "communist" China buys former GM plant and pays workers less than what McDonald's pays. Evidence that capitalism victimizes workers across the planet, whatever the ideology.

Full Review | Jan 25, 2020

"American Factory" is a disturbing economic exposé about the way we live now, and a cautionary tale about the vanishing middle class.

Full Review | Jan 24, 2020

The result is entertaining as hell at points but doesn't condescend either side and, at its best moments, juggles a swath of opinions with equal reason.

Full Review | Jan 17, 2020

This consideration of multiple lives, rather than one constructed arc serves to underline the sense that each person is only a small cog turning in the bigger wheel of the machine.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 11, 2020