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Celsius 41.11

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Celsius 41.11 (2004)

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Reviews Counted:18

Fresh:2

Rotten:16

Average Rating:3.9/10

Rated: R [See Full Rating] Brief language and violent images

Runtime: 72 mins

Genre: Education/General Interest

Theatrical Release:Oct 22, 2004 Limited

Synopsis: An extremely hardselling right-wing antithesis of Michael Moore's FAHRENHEIT 9/11, this pro-Bush version of history during George W.'s administration includes comments by Michael Ledeen of the... An extremely hardselling right-wing antithesis of Michael Moore's FAHRENHEIT 9/11, this pro-Bush version of history during George W.'s administration includes comments by Michael Ledeen of the conservative think tank the American Enterprise Institute; right-wing film critic Michael Medved; John Kerry's nemesis since the Nixon era John O'Neill; and Washington Times columnist Bill Sammon. Written by Ted Steinberg and HANOI HILTON director Lionel Chetwynd, the film explains that Celsius 41.11 is "the temperature at which the brain begins to die" and claims allegations that African-Americans were systematically disenfranchised in Florida during the 2000 election are "unsubstantiated" and that the election was not stolen. [More]

Starring: John Kerry, Michael Moore

Starring: John Kerry, Michael Moore

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As a film exercise, Celsius 41.11 is routine.

Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News | comment Comment
10/21/04
Charles Ealy
Charles Ealy
Dallas Morning News
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There are some very thought-provoking points, and the movie deserves a balanced listening-to.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
10/21/04
Desson Thomson
Desson Thomson
Washington Post
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It's about as emotional as a PowerPoint presentation.

Full Review Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | comment Comment
10/21/04
Duane Dudek
Duane Dudek
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

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

Full Review Source: One Guy's Opinion | comment Comment
11/01/04
Frank Swietek
Frank Swietek
One Guy's Opinion

Like its cinematically superior inspiration, Celsius 41.11 isn't going to change many minds.

Full Review Source: Arizona Republic | comment Comment
10/21/04
Kerry Lengel
Kerry Lengel
Arizona Republic
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Like Moore's film, Celsius hits too many topics with too broad a brush, resulting in yet another contribution to this campaign season's spin cycle of rhetoric.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
10/21/04
Kevin Crust
Kevin Crust
Los Angeles Times

A bland documentary if ever there was one.

Full Review Source: Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) | comment Comment
10/25/04
Linda Cook
Linda Cook
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

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.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
10/22/04
Lou Lumenick
Lou Lumenick
New York Post
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If Knoblock expected his film to change minds, as Fahrenheit 9-11 seems to have done, he really should have added more humor

Full Review Source: Los Angeles CityBeat | comment Comment
10/21/04
Luke Y. Thompson
Luke Y. Thompson
Los Angeles CityBeat

The new documentary film Celsius 41.11 represents another unconvincing effort on the part of conservatives to mount a viable critique of Michael Moore.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
10/21/04
Manohla Dargis
Manohla Dargis
New York Times

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

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
10/31/04
Marc Savlov
Marc Savlov
Austin Chronicle

The even faintly informed will see only a cut-rate vision of flabby white men defending their own bloodthirsty opportunism.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
10/26/04
Michael Atkinson
Michael Atkinson
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.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
10/22/04
Philip Kennicott
Philip Kennicott
Washington Post

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.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
05/09/08
Rob Gonsalves
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com

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

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
10/29/04
Robert Koehler
Robert Koehler
Variety
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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.

Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly | comment Comment
10/21/04
Ron Stringer
Ron Stringer
L.A. Weekly

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.

Full Review Source: Salon.com | comment Comment
10/27/04
Stephanie Zacharek
Stephanie Zacharek
Salon.com
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It's not that Moore's film doesn't deserve an argument. But it does deserve a more thoughtful one.

Full Review Source: Seattle Times | comment Comment
10/22/04
Tom Keogh
Tom Keogh
Seattle Times
 
 
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