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
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 2/5 |
This even-handed effort simply doesn't probe deep enough. Full Review |
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 3.5/4 |
A solid, well-done and seemingly balanced look at Moore's work, his celebrity, his methods and the ethical problems in his reporting. Full Review |
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There’s little to disagree with in the thumbnail portrait of Moore that emerges from this entertaining doc. Full Review |
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3/5 |
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. Full Review |
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Exposes a paranoid personality, testy with his critics and bullish about his methodology. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Moore's reputation as a brilliant polemicist takes a knock or two, here. But it's still very much upright. Full Review |
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2/5 |
A few serious points against Moore's credibility are overshadowed by a lot of dull posturing, unconvincing argument and unpleasant interviews. It's nothing like as good as the films made by the man it maligns. Full Review |
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3/5 |
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. Full Review |
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4/6 |
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. Full Review |
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The big question you have to ask yourself is: do these dishonest work practices actually undermine the message he's trying get across? The answer is probably not… because Moore is already preaching to the converted. Full Review |
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2/4 |
Too bad co-writers/co-directors Debbie Melnyk and Rick Caine don't investigate -- and ingratiate -- the way their target does in his own films. Full Review |
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Useful but limited muckraking. Full Review |
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1.5/4 |
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. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
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. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
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. Full Review |
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1/5 |
Manufacturing Dissent seems disingenuous at times and just plain stupid at others. Full Review |
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3/5 |
A Michael Moore-style documentary about Moore himself. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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1.5/5 |
Manufacturing Dissent seeks to criticize Michael Moore's documentary tactics, while simultaneously using those same tactics unsuccessfully in the creation of the film. Full Review |
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