Capital in the Twenty-First Century review - Piketty in a pop culture package

This documentary based on Thomas Piketty's economics bestseller outlines the effects of unchecked capitalism, but its visual style is jarring Capital in the Twenty-First Century is not so much a critique of capitalism as a critique of its corruption. In New Zealand film-maker Justin Pemberton's documentary, French economist Thomas Piketty's sweeping 700-page book from 2013 is condensed into an illustrated lecture that runs under two hours. Piketty appears as a talking head, bolstered by a cast o...