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Celsius 41.11 (2004)

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Celsius 41.11 counters what producers Lionel Chetwynd and Ted Steinberg deem to be lies and deceptions presented in Michael Moore's controversial documentary Fahrenheit 9/11. The title alludes to "the temperature at which the brain deteriorates from heat -- in this case, from Moore's left wing rhetoric," according to Chetwynd. Includes appearances by Fred Thompson, Charles Krauthammer, Fred Barnes, Michael Medved and many others.

R, 1 hr. 12 min.

Documentary, Special Interest

Oct 26, 2004

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All Critics (18) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (16)

As a return volley to Moore's cinema, Celsius shares Moore's blatant agit-prop but none of his humor or entertainment sense.

October 29, 2004 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment
Variety
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Celsius 41.11 is so bad it's almost like performance art, or those cheap records from the '60s, where the Chipmunks sing the Beatles' greatest hits.

October 27, 2004 Full Review Source: Salon.com | Comment
Salon.com
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The even faintly informed will see only a cut-rate vision of flabby white men defending their own bloodthirsty opportunism.

October 26, 2004 Full Review Source: Village Voice | Comment
Village Voice
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There's really nothing more here than you can find watching dreadful political advertisements and dreadful political talk shows.

October 22, 2004 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comment
Washington Post
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There is little new in this mostly dry and humorless defense of President Bush, which adds a little heat but not a whole lot of light to the political debate.

October 22, 2004 Comment
New York Post
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There are some very thought-provoking points, and the movie deserves a balanced listening-to.

October 21, 2004 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comment
Washington Post
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Now that we've had the four more years of Bush that the movie was designed to encourage ... Celsius 41.11 seems pretty sad and naive.

May 9, 2008 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment
eFilmCritic.com

A grim slice of ultra-conservative agitprop...probably the worst example of the activist documentary to appear this election season.

November 1, 2004 Full Review Source: One Guy's Opinion | Comment
One Guy's Opinion

Any way you look at it, November 2 simply cannot arrive fast enough.

October 31, 2004 Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | Comment
Austin Chronicle

A bland documentary if ever there was one.

October 25, 2004 Full Review | Comment
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

It's not that Moore's film doesn't deserve an argument. But it does deserve a more thoughtful one.

October 22, 2004 Full Review Source: Seattle Times | Comment
Seattle Times

It's about as emotional as a PowerPoint presentation.

October 21, 2004 Comment
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

If Knoblock expected his film to change minds, as Fahrenheit 9-11 seems to have done, he really should have added more humor

October 21, 2004 Full Review Source: Los Angeles CityBeat | Comment

Chetwynd and company at least attempt to score their points honestly, avoiding the spurious or ad hominem attacks of those for whom many little lies somehow constitute fair play in November's battle against the Big Red One.

October 21, 2004 Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly | Comment
L.A. Weekly
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Some legitiamate points really. And some points left completely out...hmmn, I wonder what that says about THOSE points...

November 3, 2007
NathanSwink
Nathan Swink

The rebuttals offered not only dance around Michael Moore's original points, but are not credible. Plain and Simply.

October 22, 2006

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