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Fresh:106
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Average Rating:6.7/10
Consensus: Love him or hate him, Capitalism captures Michael Moore in his muckraking element -- with all the Moore-centric showmanship that entails.
Australian Rating: TBC
Genre: Education/General Interest
Australian Theatrical Release:
Jul 23, 2009 Wide
US Box Office: $14,266,331
Synopsis: Plenty of excitement--and controversy--is sure to surround this film from decorated documentarian Michael Moore. After previously taking on America’s gun culture (BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE), the Bush... [More]
Director: Michael Moore
Moore has long proved himself an excellent editor and comedian, but he always insists on preaching to the like-minded and, thus, can't string together a political film persuasive enough to make a real difference.
Top CriticThere's both grit and entertainment value in the film, although if you have seen Moore's other films, you may, like me, feel as though you have seen it all before. It's long, too
Top CriticNo easy answers here, but that’s exactly the point; a big ideas film that hopes to rouse the audience into social change.
Top CriticAs usual, Moore is a man who wants answers, which makes for a good documentary. It is a fascinating, albeit terribly lopsided, insight.
Top CriticMoore has the skill to make very complex material reasonably lucid, some would say simplistic; but it’s when he gets silly that he falters.
Top CriticThere's nothing too subtle about Moore's filmmaking style, but he does get his points across in a straightforward, uncomplicated way.
Top CriticCapitalism : A Love Story marks a minor return to form for Moore, whose tactical agenda and questionable methods as a documentary filmmaker have dented his standing in recent years.
Top CriticCapitalism: A Love Story is, like Moore's previous movies, manipulative and moving, funny and impassioned, uplifting and infuriating.
Top CriticMoore’s ambush-and-blame methods are bad journalism. His lack of moral, political context is as questionable as ever.
Mildly entertaining and occasionally funny, but often poorly researched, repetitive, parochial, and unenlightening.
Moore's choice to make "capitalism" his straw man (rather than, say, greed or Reagan-era deregulation) puts him in closer company than he might like with some pretty nasty world-historical bedfellows.
Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story is something else -- not a good movie or a coherent exposition of the meltdown but an emotional attack on capitalism as a system, an attempt, literally, to de-moralize capitalism.
Top CriticAnyone up on current events and at least passingly familiar with the history of the U.S. will learn few new insights. What they will learn is that they have seen this all before, and done better, by a director who seems to be going through the paces.
[A] scattershot, lazy slice of agitprop, which recycles Moore's usual slice-and-dice job on corporations, while bobbing a curtsey to the current crisis.
Has only a few traces of Moore's wit and humor, and they're nearly lost in the fog of his indignation.
Unfortunately, Moore's slapdash approach withers before the sprawling canvas, and his dot-like anecdotes rattle around.
Michael Moore preaches to the converted in his least insightful op-ed to date.
Like most of his movies, this will probably make your blood boil, but it functions at a level of such blubbering emotionality that it might as well be a Glenn Beck rant.
"Harassing security guards, cheap stunts, unfunny comedy moments ... all a bit too familiar, and all a bit too distracting -- and that's a pity, because when Capitalism: A Love Story is on, it's on fire."
The lack of a factual backbone will be catnip for conservatives who attack everything that Moore does, regardless of the validity of his arguments.
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