Some of the accusations in this documentary by a pair of Canadian filmmakers who initially set out to make a positive portrait, will make your eyes water.
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10/05/07
Manufacturing Dissent (2007)
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Reviews Counted:23
Fresh:12
Rotten:11
Average Rating:5.2/10
Synopsis: Michael Moore has made a career by turning his camera on prominent people and asking them discomfiting questions about hot-button political issues in which they're involved. He's made them squirm... [More]
Starring: Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, Ralph Nader, Errol Morris
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Reviews for Manufacturing Dissent
There’s little to disagree with in the thumbnail portrait of Moore that emerges from this entertaining doc.
10/11/07
A solid, well-done and seemingly balanced look at Moore's work, his celebrity, his methods and the ethical problems in his reporting.
10/12/07
While Manufacturing Dissent provides little that is new, it does place the controversy in the larger context of the contradictory relationship between the pursuit of fame and journalistic integrity.
07/20/07
Top CriticA Michael Moore-style documentary about Moore himself.
04/04/07
An intelligent, provocative and, arguably, even necessary examination of the phenomenon of Michael Moore.
03/13/07
Top CriticSmart, fair primer on Michael Moore's divisive career offers a couple of eye-opening moments.
03/17/07
The problem in making a documentary about Moore, though, is that it probably won't be as interesting as a documentary made by him, even if his techniques are used.
10/05/07
With a wide-ranging array of interviewees and an amusingly Moore-like approach to its subject, Manufacturing Dissent is an enjoyable documentary, whether you're pro-Moore, anti-Moore or indifferent.
10/05/07
This hugely entertaining documentary turns Michael Moore's filmmaking style back on himself to separate the facts from the rumours. It's not a hatchet job, but Moore doesn't emerge unscathed.
08/30/07
Though much of what’s in the film isn’t new information, seeing it all compiled in one place and building to its damning argument against Moore is effective and disturbing.
08/30/07
Exposes a paranoid personality, testy with his critics and bullish about his methodology.
10/05/07
Something of a missed opportunity. Somebody really needs to delve deep into the symbolic value, and very real limitations, of the left's class clown and über-celebrity.
03/13/07
Top CriticToo bad co-writers/co-directors Debbie Melnyk and Rick Caine don't investigate -- and ingratiate -- the way their target does in his own films.
08/31/07
This even-handed effort simply doesn't probe deep enough.
10/26/07
Manufacturing Dissent comes across less as an expose of a polarizing public figure than as the realization of a personal and not especially interesting grudge against a once-admired colleague who has moved on to bigger things.
08/30/07
Useful but limited muckraking.
08/31/07
Top CriticManufacturing Dissent seems disingenuous at times and just plain stupid at others.
07/20/07
Moore's reputation as a brilliant polemicist takes a knock or two, here. But it's still very much upright.
10/05/07
Caine and Melnyk’s film is intent in questioning such legitimacies, which it does well; it’s just as propagandistic as a Michael Moore film, but not as entertaining.
03/20/07
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