99 Percent: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film

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Released Sep 6, 2013

1h 32m

Documentary

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67%

12 Reviews

Tomatometer

76%

100+ Ratings

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Disparate activists gather and camp out in Downtown Manhattan's Zuccotti Park to make points about society's wealth inequity, political corruption, and corporate influence on government.

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Sherrie Li

Village Voice

Though it largely sides with the protesters, the film does not find them faultless.

Sep 10, 2013

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Alonso Duralde

TheWrap

The movie very skillfully goes from the macro (coverage of the various demonstrations and encampments) to the micro (interviews with individuals who suffered in the mortgage crisis, searing examination of the behavior of the police).

Sep 6, 2013

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Andy Webster

New York Times

The variety of physical perspectives lends a vivid you-are-there aspect to this record of the Zuccotti Park protest in New York in 2011, which spawned similar demonstrations ... around the world.

Rated: 4/5

Sep 6, 2013

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Daniel Walber

Nonfics

Compelling as a panorama with historical analysis at heart, rather than an intellectual deconstruction devoid of any visceral proof.

Rated: 4/5

Jun 5, 2014

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Jeremy Mathews

Paste Magazine

It's not definitive, tidy or entirely cohesive, but hey, neither was the movement.

Rated: 6.3/10

Sep 19, 2013

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Rob Humanick

House Next Door

...never speaking to the diversity and complexity of a social movement and only inadvertently to its often inherent disorganization.

Jun 22, 2013

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Audience Member

Yes, I was one of those hoping, praying, rooting for the Occupy Movement, a cause that reminded every major city in America -- and 82 countries -- that crucial values most thoughtful people hold dear are being shredded by multi-national corporations. Heartbroken as I was to see that movement dissolve, I was curious to see if "99%" answers the question: Why did that movement fail? Spoiler alert: No, it does not. In fact, it offers no overview of the movement nationally or globally, but focuses only on NYC's protest with a fairly long, sometimes monotonous, string of interview clips. Great cause, weak flick.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/19/23

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Synopsis

Disparate activists gather and camp out in Downtown Manhattan's Zuccotti Park to make points about society's wealth inequity, political corruption, and corporate influence on government.

Director: Aaron Aites, Audrey Ewell, Nina Krstic, Lucian Read
Distributor: Participant Media
Rating: R (Language)
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 6, 2013, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 28, 2017
Runtime: 1h 32m

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