Ultimately, Capitalism: A Love Story doesn't break ground, but it's 100% Moore and a little bit more.
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10/02/09
Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)
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Reviews Counted:141
Fresh:106
Rotten:35
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
Reviews for Capitalism: A Love Story
41 - 60 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Smart-alecky and simplistic? Yeah. And primo Moore.
10/02/09
As a filmmaker creating a product for a marketplace, supported by profit-seeking investors, he obviously has some comfort level with capitalism in the sense of doing business.
10/02/09
Michael Moore is up to his old tricks in Capitalism: A Love Story, and that's sure to both infuriate, and entertain and inform, depending which side of the Michael Moore fence you stand on.
10/02/09
Because it's so wildly entertaining, because Moore is basically a clever carnival barker at heart...Capitalism: A Love Story becomes a fabulous financial freak show
10/02/09
While it’s amusing to watch Moore on camera plaster the entrance to the New York Stock Exchange with crime-scene tape, when Moore goes through his customary security-guard harassment in another segment, it’s hard not to think: Here we go again.
10/02/09
In a movie long on symbols, dead peasants are the most egregious, but a close second would be the rah-rah "confidential" Citibank memo about the United States having become a "plutonomy."
10/02/09
Love him or hate him, liberal filmmaker Michael Moore is something of a modern-day Howard Beale, urging us to get outraged over injustices he perceives to be perpetrated by conservatives.
10/02/09
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.
10/02/09
Moore is much better at indicting culprits than providing solutions.
10/02/09
The movie lives up to its hype in its first five minutes and builds from there. It's the Awful Truth in big, bold letters.
10/02/09
Moore has always stood proudly for progressivism, and that works in his favor now.
10/02/09
All these episodes are accompanied by Moore’s typically dramatic background music choices and unrigorous analysis.
10/02/09
Even Michael Moore's weakest and most convoluted film is an excellent documentary which will enlighten and scare you.
10/02/09
In "Capitalism: A Love Story," Michael Moore casts a fiery eye at the U.S. financial system - a rich and appalling subject at the moment - and comes, alas, to the usual loopy conclusion
10/02/09
You will march out of the theater looking to beat up a CEO.
10/02/09
Comes across like a refresher course, and not the higher education Moore has strived for in the past.
10/02/09
Capitalism's aim is too scattershot. It's old hat for Moore to argue only one side of the story, but this is the first time he has so blatantly failed to focus on the issue at hand
10/02/09
The latest from Michael Moore is his usual shtick, but better.
10/02/09
The result is a film that stands as one of Moore's finest arguments. It's also one of his funniest, if you accept that the jokes are all of the gritted-teeth variety.
10/02/09
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