The constant quotations from the Founding Fathers suggest his real concern is a somewhat nebulous betrayal of the American Dream.
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03/15/10
Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)
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Reviews Counted:169
Fresh:127
Rotten:42
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.
Runtime: 2 hrs 7 mins
Genre: Education/General Interest
Theatrical Release:Oct 2, 2009 Wide
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
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Reviews for Capitalism: A Love Story
Moore continues his career as provocateur with this often eloquent, occasionally muddled, bill of particulars which indicts Wall Street's ethos of greed. As with most of Moore's documentaries, the film is strongest when he's behind the camera, rather than
03/13/10
While Moore still stacks the deck, there are enough scenes portraying callously inhuman policies, such as the death peasant insurance, to pacify the viewer for two overlong hours.
03/11/10
A barbed study of the American economy puts capitalism in the dock but somehow fails to convict.
02/26/10
The thesis that rapacious capitalism has horrific social consequences is credible and well illustrated, if hardly eye-opening to European viewers.
02/26/10
Republicans have long used these methods to influence the public with great success - all Moore does is play them at their own highly effective game.
02/26/10
For all his cheap tactics, Moore mounts a persuasive case that something is rotten in the current economic system.
02/26/10
Michael Moore has succeeded in getting a film on this Âsubject actually released in cinemas: a very sharp and entertaining one at that.
02/26/10
Funny, angry and deadly accurate.
02/26/10
The most interesting aspect of Capitalism is a strain of melancholic nostalgia that runs through its latter segments
02/26/10
Still fighting the good fight for the working man, Capitalism is entertaining but conspicuously bankrupt of fresh ideas and insights. By now, Moore is starting to feel like less.
02/26/10
Moore comes up with enough of these startling moments to keep us watching, though he's certainly stronger on huff and puff than concrete solutions.
02/26/10
A troubling portrait of a country shaken by repossessions, exploitation and the rich sucking the life out of the poor.
02/26/10
The film is good fun. Perhaps we have seen it all before, but you could say that of a sunrise. Every sunrise is different and Moore’s are usually worth getting out of bed for.
02/26/10
Moore is marvellously indignant and confrontational (he tries to make a citizen's arrest of the AIG board), and dramatises moments of rebellion and fight-back with relish. But there's something self-righteous and teenage-lefty about his rhetoric.
02/26/10
It may all feel a little obvious and heavy-handed in places but he makes a complex subject accessible and issues a call to arms that every hard-pressed homeowner will appreciate.
02/26/10
The movie is archive-heavy and preachy, but it feels just right for the occasion.
02/26/10
A well made, convincingly argued documentary that's by turns informative, heart-breaking, shocking, funny, entertaining, utterly depressing and likely to induce tears of impotent rage.
02/26/10
It’s the sort of film that everyone will end up seeing but no-one really cares when they see it. I could happily have waited for DVD.
02/26/10
...lets off the hook the greedy ****ers responsible for exploiting the lower classes, effectively tossing pebbles at its targets when it should be heaving boulders.
01/07/10
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