Payback

“Payback is nothing if not brave. It's a documentary attempt to give concrete shape to an abstract discussion, using the medium of film to transplant a nuanced thesis – on the concept of debt – from its natural home on the printed page.”

Rick Groen, The Globe and Mail (Toronto) · 75

“Payback attempts something impressively difficult, but it succeeds primarily in its individual moments.”

Noel Murray, The A.V. Club · 67

“This documentary on the many forms of human debt, though often frustratingly broad, offers a path to balancing civilization's ledger with a hard-nosed brand of altruism.”

Bill Weber, Slant Magazine · 63

“Debt is bad, we can all agree, as is its conceptual cousin, greed. It would have been intellectually bracing, though, to have a Gordon Gekko equivalent on hand to argue otherwise.”

Mark Feeney, Boston Globe · 63

“Payback is a rarefied conceptual documentary that will appeal to a limited but highly appreciative audience.”

Rob Nelson, Variety