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10 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Film ThreatAlan NgFilm ThreatAlan NgIt’s a story of very flawed people who followed the pied piper to a new world that doesn’t exist.
- 80The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawJed Rothstein’s very entertaining documentary is another horror story from the tulip-feverish world of tech startups.
- 75The Film StageJohn FinkThe Film StageJohn FinkEdited with a brisk pace by Samuel Nalband, WeWork is a fascinating character study of the kind of entrepreneur that is often embraced without criticism by the financial press as a “thought leader” while offering vague catch phrases about “disruption” and “transformation.”
- 75San Francisco ChronicleBob StraussSan Francisco ChronicleBob StraussBetween the talking heads, Rothstein also uses kinetic imagery and spry cutting to keep the potentially eye-glazing subject matter as gripping as a true crime mystery, which it kind of was.
- 63RogerEbert.comNick AllenRogerEbert.comNick AllenThere’s a largely automatic nature to this informative documentary; much of what unfolds here is depressingly prototypical.
- 60The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeThe Observer (UK)Wendy IdeThe film is fascinating on cult capitalism and the power of personality as a marketing tool for an otherwise unremarkable business plan.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterInkoo KangThe Hollywood ReporterInkoo KangThe documentary is just as notable for the cultural and social analysis that it lacks as it is for its contents.
- 50IndieWireBen TraversIndieWireBen TraversThe film ultimately suffers from an overfamiliarity in not just construction but content; the “WeWork” documentary paints a broad portrait of what happened without expanding on (or even including) details that made previous exposés so juicy.
- 50The New York TimesBen KenigsbergThe New York TimesBen KenigsbergOn why what now looks like a tenuous, bluster-based business model would appeal to Wall Street, the director, Jed Rothstein, spends less time than he should.