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Reviews Counted:170
Fresh:128
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.
Theatrical Release: Sep 23, 2009 Wide
Box Office: $14.3M
Synopsis: Capitalism: A Love Story examines the impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans (and by default, the rest of the world). The... [More]
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This isn't just about pointing fingers at those who have gotten us into this mess, but about mobilizing working people to stop waiting for someone else to fix it, to stop sitting idly by while their wages, pensions, health care, and homes are stolen.
[Michael Moore] is cheeky, he's outrageous and he can get awfully full of himself... but he does have a way of getting your blood up...
The constant quotations from the Founding Fathers suggest his real concern is a somewhat nebulous betrayal of the American Dream.
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
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.
A barbed study of the American economy puts capitalism in the dock but somehow fails to convict.
The thesis that rapacious capitalism has horrific social consequences is credible and well illustrated, if hardly eye-opening to European viewers.
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.
For all his cheap tactics, Moore mounts a persuasive case that something is rotten in the current economic system.
Michael Moore has succeeded in getting a film on this Âsubject actually released in cinemas: a very sharp and entertaining one at that.
Funny, angry and deadly accurate.
The most interesting aspect of Capitalism is a strain of melancholic nostalgia that runs through its latter segments
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.
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.
A troubling portrait of a country shaken by repossessions, exploitation and the rich sucking the life out of the poor.
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.
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.
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.
The movie is archive-heavy and preachy, but it feels just right for the occasion.
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.
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September 30, 2009:
Michael Moore: The RT Interview
Michael Moore has never been afraid to tackle big issues, from the struggles of American workers (Roger & Me) to health care (Sicko) to the war in Iraq (Fahrenheit 9/11). His latest, Capitalism: A...
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August 21, 2009:
Trailer Bulletin: Capitalism: A Love Story
With its release just weeks away and only an itty-bitty teaser under its belt, it's high time Michael Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story" got a real trailer -- and look, one just popped up at CNN.
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August 4, 2009:
Is Michael Moore Done with Documentaries?
In news that will surely warm the cockles of Fox News's target demographic, Michael Moore is publicly pondering getting out of the documentary game.
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