Capital in the Twenty-First Century

It's brisk, first-rate stuff, and not especially radical. I can see it being shown in schools.

Piketty's picture is no less dismaying for being so lavishly detailed.

If Piketty is a rock star, the film paints capitalism as a supergroup whose biggest hits were hugely popular, but are long in the past. New material has not been well received.

The movie indicates America is now similar economically to what England was in the early 1800s. A tiny percentage of society controls almost all the wealth. Such inequality can destabilize a society.