Damon, who campaigned for Obama, has also recently said he’s “disappointed in the health care plan and in the troop buildup in Afghanistan.” This doc may be one more sign that Democratic celebrities are going to push harder against the man they helped elect. As the narrator, Damon explicitly takes President Obama to task for hiring so many of the financial executives who pushed deregulation, and for neglecting to push the feds to pursue any criminal cases against executives on Wall Street. The aggressive (and, yes, utterly biased) tone of the film makes Damon’s participation all the more notable. If Goldman Sachs is a vampire squid, Ferguson is attempting to map out all the major conflicts of interest in the financial world: a kind of Transylvania Sea World. The documentary argues, as many have, that there is a kind of toxic co-dependence between the financial services industry, Washington, and university economics departments. This isn’t some maudlin and comical tale, like Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story this film is a smart, inciting rant. But the most effective presence may be the trusted voice of all-American actor Matt Damon, who narrates the furious takedown of the financial services and the government. Ferguson gets support from interviews with professional Cassandra Nouriel Roubini, Barney Frank, George Soros, Eliot Spitzer and others.

Though Ferguson’s film begins with a scrolling shot of the New York skyline that’s almost identical to one in Stone’s film, Inside Job directly takes on the bankers behind the 2008 financial crisis, attacking early and often. But yesterday, documentarian Charles Ferguson ( No End in Sight) came right out and said what Stone could only fictionalize with the rip-snorting, indignant documentary Inside Job. Two nights ago Cannes audiences watched Oliver Stone take down the moneymen of America through greed avatar Gordon Gekko with Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.

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