Isn’t every Michael Moore film ultimately about capitalism? This one just has a more facetious title.
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10/01/09
Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)
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Reviews Counted:149
Fresh:111
Rotten:38
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: $14,342,792
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
81 - 100 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
You might say Moore has been making this movie his entire career. He attempts to expose corrupt bottom line-minded corporations that are in league with Capitol Hill as the cause of America's ills. He's been doing just that since the days of Roger & Me
10/01/09
For all his lack of objectivity and occasional fact-twisting, Moore takes on dauntingly complex subjects and turns them into hugely entertaining, provocative pictures.
10/01/09
What [Moore] offers isn't an argument as much as a polemic. But as in the past, he proves a skilled polemicist,...[and] looked at dispassionately, it's fun.
10/01/09
The film's title is never explained. What does Moore mean? Maybe it's that capitalism means never having to say you're sorry.
10/01/09
Top CriticHow dare they! It gets you worked up! But exactly what point is Moore making? What should we be angry about?
09/30/09
The lack of a factual backbone will be catnip for conservatives who attack everything that Moore does, regardless of the validity of his arguments.
09/30/09
Capitalism is alternately moving and disheartening, energizing and enervating.
09/30/09
Capitalism will make you laugh, it will make you cry and it will make you angry -- in other words, par for the course for a Michael Moore movie.
09/30/09
If the film entertains you and outrages you, it's done its job remarkably well.
09/30/09
There's a simmering anger here that hasn't been present since Moore first burst upon the cinematic world with Roger and Me.
09/30/09
Capitalism may be flawed, but it is nevertheless entertaining. Which counts for a lot.
09/30/09
Of course Moore's angry. I don't know anybody who isn't. But what about the movie?
09/29/09
[It] may be a bit scattershot and employ familiar tricks, [but it's both] a challenging and personal movie.
09/29/09
Usually Michael Moore's movies make me appreciate how few real problems I actually have. I can't complain about my lifestyle when people's can't feed their kids or pay their hospital bills. This time, I feel like I'm right there with them.
09/29/09
Has only a few traces of Moore's wit and humor, and they're nearly lost in the fog of his indignation.
09/28/09
...unlike the manipulation of facts and imagery used to make his cases in "Bowling for Columbine" and "Fahrenheit 9/11," here a more restrained Moore comes across as more fair and even handed than he has in years
09/28/09
Even if you don’t agree with the answers that Michael Moore suggests, I think you should see this movie.
09/28/09
Why do we go to the movies? To be entertained and informed. And Michael Moore shows an uncanny ability to be 'way ahead of the curve of public awareness.
09/28/09
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.
09/28/09
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