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In contrast, There Will Be Blood (2007) starring Daniel Day-Lewis was an angry portrait of an exploitive developer based on Upton Sinclair’s classic 1926 novel Oil.
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Peter Bart, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025
While many of these agreements have been deeply flawed and exploitive, the firing of Shira Perlmutter represents a pivot to something much worse.
—Sarah Montana, HollywoodReporter, 29 May 2025
The Black community’s relationship with growing food is colored by exploitive practices, from slavery to sharecropping, tenant farming and peonage, or debt servitude.
—Lyndsay C. Green, Detroit Free Press, 27 Nov. 2024
In Girls Gone Wild, the Untold Story, producers examine the life of Joe Francis, the founder of the multimillion-dollar franchise that profited off of exploitive videos featuring young spring breakers baring their breasts for T-shirts and hats.
—Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2024
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Peter Bart, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025
While many of these agreements have been deeply flawed and exploitive, the firing of Shira Perlmutter represents a pivot to something much worse.
—Sarah Montana, HollywoodReporter, 29 May 2025
The Black community’s relationship with growing food is colored by exploitive practices, from slavery to sharecropping, tenant farming and peonage, or debt servitude.
—Lyndsay C. Green, Detroit Free Press, 27 Nov. 2024
In Girls Gone Wild, the Untold Story, producers examine the life of Joe Francis, the founder of the multimillion-dollar franchise that profited off of exploitive videos featuring young spring breakers baring their breasts for T-shirts and hats.
—Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2024
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“Exploitive.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/exploitive. Accessed 25 Dec. 2025.
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