The End Of Poverty?

Writing a negative review of a documentary on world poverty is akin to booing Santa Claus at the Thanksgiving Day parade, but The End of Poverty? does not present many exemplary qualities for a stringent critic to applaud. In the end, the film is an informative experience, and people will definitely emerge from the theater a bit smarter than when they entered, which is more than can be said of the vast majority of cinematic fare these days. Director Philippe Diaz and the producers have assembled a sporadically compelling PBS-style history of poverty which clarifies a great deal about how the gap between the haves and the have-nots has become so appallingly wid...