An account of the six-week death spiral that brought down the company's IPO, a behind-the-scenes look at WeWork's frat-boy culture.... (Full plot summary below)
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An account of the six-week death spiral that brought down the company's IPO, a behind-the-scenes look at WeWork's frat-boy culture.
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| The GuardianPeter BradshawJed Rothstein’s very entertaining documentary is another horror story from the tulip-feverish world of tech startups. |
| CineVueSara MericanCapturing Neumann’s fall from grace, this film illuminates some of the most hard-hitting professional and social anxieties of our age. |
| Film ThreatAlan NgIt’s a story of very flawed people who followed the pied piper to a new world that doesn’t exist. |
| The 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.” |
| San 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. |
| RogerEbert.comNick AllenThere’s a largely automatic nature to this informative documentary; much of what unfolds here is depressingly prototypical. |
| The 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. |
| The 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. |
| The Hollywood ReporterInkoo KangThe documentary is just as notable for the cultural and social analysis that it lacks as it is for its contents. |
| IndieWireBen 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. |
