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Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room Review: This quietly devastating documentary is one of the most effective indictments of the big-business mentality ever committed to film. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room succeeds because it never goes overboard in manipulating the viewer. Instead, it treats the rise and fall of Enron with clinical precision, using interviews and copious file footage to lay out the facts of the case and allowing viewers to come to their own conclusions. The end result is a scary documentation of how the profit-first approach of companies like Enron has led to a situation where all the components of the business machine are tainted with corruption. Indeed, the most upsetting part of Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room is discovering the company's founders were allowed to keep their schemes afloat for so long because they were able to buy off business analysts and major lending institutions. As a result, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room is fascinating viewing -- both as an exploration of big business' inner workings and also as a true crime story. Donald Guarisco, All Movie Guide

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