"Powerful...a horror film of the most realistic kind. Fred Peabody's documentary examines the ways in which corporate interests increasingly control society. The title pretty much announces what the viewer is in for. Taken from a 1995 lecture by Canadian philosopher John Raulston Saul, it refers to the ever-growing control of our democratic institutions by companies looking out solely for their own interests. Saul had described it as happening in "slow motion," but as the film vividly illustrates, the phenomenon has increased rapidly in the age of Trump. The film certainly doesn't pull its punches."  -Frank Scheck, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

"The Corporate Coup d'État isn't a horror doc, but it methodically builds a sense of impending doom...zeroing in on people damaged by what is, in effect, an oligarchy."  -POV Magazine

"Fred Peabody's film persuasively shows how capitalist interests have been actively subverting the levers of democracy for a long time."  -NOW Toronto

"An insightful, philosophical, and highly critical work that lets no one off the hook and paints capitalism as the biggest roadblock to a true democracy. It outlines in great detail the ways that American leaders have made democracy something that works almost exclusively for corporations, landowners, and the financially powerful and influential."  -The Gate

"The explicit message of The Corporate Coup d'etat, presented with a necessary blue-in-the-face urgency, is that Cheeto Mussolini isn't an aberration, but the continuation and inevitable result of a political system overcome by total corporate capture."  -The Georgia Straight