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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... 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 administration (FAHRENHEIT 9/11), and America’s healthcare crisis (SICKO), this timely film addresses what caused the financial crisis that stopped the world in 2008. CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY finds Moore criticizing the government bailout of privately held businesses. [More]

Director: Michael Moore

Director: Michael Moore
Screenwriter: Michael Moore
Producer: Michael Moore, Anne Moore
Composer: Jeff Gibbs
Studio: Overture

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The constant quotations from the Founding Fathers suggest his real concern is a somewhat nebulous betrayal of the American Dream.

Full Review Source: Observer [UK] | comment Comment
03/15/10
Philip French
Philip French
Observer [UK]

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

Full Review Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | comment Comment
03/13/10
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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.

Full Review Source: Examiner.com | comment Comment
03/11/10
Adam Lippe
Adam Lippe
Examiner.com

A barbed study of the American economy puts capitalism in the dock but somehow fails to convict.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
02/26/10
Damon Wise
Damon Wise
Empire Magazine

The thesis that rapacious capitalism has horrific social consequences is credible and well illustrated, if hardly eye-opening to European viewers.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
02/26/10
Ben Walters
Ben Walters
Time Out

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.

Full Review Source: Film4 | comment Comment
02/26/10
Film4

For all his cheap tactics, Moore mounts a persuasive case that something is rotten in the current economic system.

Full Review Source: Times [UK] | comment Comment
02/26/10
Wendy Ide
Wendy Ide
Times [UK]

Michael Moore has succeeded in getting a film on this ­subject actually released in cinemas: a very sharp and entertaining one at that.

Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | comment Comment
02/26/10
Peter Bradshaw
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]

Funny, angry and deadly accurate.

Full Review Source: Daily Telegraph | comment Comment
02/26/10
David Gritten
David Gritten
Daily Telegraph

The most interesting aspect of Capitalism is a strain of melancholic nostalgia that runs through its latter segments

Full Review Source: Little White Lies | comment Comment
02/26/10
Alan Mack
Alan Mack
Little White Lies

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.

Full Review Source: Total Film | comment Comment
02/26/10
Jonathan Crocker
Jonathan Crocker
Total Film

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.

Full Review Source: Radio Times | comment Comment
02/26/10
Trevor Johnston
Trevor Johnston
Radio Times

A troubling portrait of a country shaken by repossessions, exploitation and the rich sucking the life out of the poor.

Full Review Source: Daily Mirror [UK] | comment Comment
02/26/10
David Edwards
David Edwards
Daily Mirror [UK]

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.

Full Review Source: Financial Times | comment Comment
02/26/10
Nigel Andrews
Nigel Andrews
Financial Times

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.

Full Review Source: Independent | comment Comment
02/26/10
John Walsh
John Walsh
Independent

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.

Full Review Source: Daily Express | comment Comment
02/26/10
Allan Hunter
Allan Hunter
Daily Express

The movie is archive-heavy and preachy, but it feels just right for the occasion.

Full Review Source: This is London | comment Comment
02/26/10
Andrew O'Hagan
Andrew O'Hagan
This is London

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.

Full Review Source: ViewLondon | comment Comment
02/26/10
Matthew Turner
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon

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.

Full Review Source: Ultra Culture | comment 2 Comments
02/26/10
Charlie Lyne
Charlie Lyne
Ultra Culture

...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.

Full Review Source: Projection Booth | comment 1 Comment
01/07/10
Rob Humanick
Rob Humanick
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