Outfoxed (2004)
86 %
Reviews Counted: 57 Fresh: 49 Rotten:8 Average Rating: 6.9/10
Consensus:
Neither fair nor balanced itself, Outfoxed offers an often entertaining indictment of the Fox News Channel.
Runtime: 1 hr 54 mins
Theatrical Release: Jul 16, 2004 Limited
Box Office: $237,277
Synopsis: In this scathing documentary from Robert Greenwald, the Fox News Channel comes under fire. First the film illustrates the way that its owner, Rupert Murdoch, has dominated the media, buying up TV stations, cable channels, and newspapers worldwide. Next, Fox's reporting tactics are looked... [More]
Genre: Television
Starring: Walter Cronkite, Jeffrey Cohen, Bob McChesney, Chellie Pingree, Jeff Chester
Director: Robert Greenwald
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05/26/06
[A] home-run smackdown of the Australian mogul who dominates the American media scene...
01/12/05
This basic dichotomy of honest, urgent intentions and desultory, cheapskate expression marks OutFoxed from a fairly early moment and never really changes.
10/19/04
Greenwald does an excellent job of showing Murdoch's pit bulls jump through his hoops, obeying internal memos as if they were the word of God
10/11/04
The most scrupulous, most focused, most thorough, and arguably most important of 2004's wave of activist documentaries.
10/06/04
Not about anything except the lead-balloon revelation that Fox feeds rage and fuels disinformation with questionable journalistic tactics.
10/05/04
This is a big story, but there's not much coverage of it, except in this movie.
09/30/04
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09/21/04
Greenwald has fashioned a fine attack dog, and he's sicced it on a deserving subject.
09/17/04
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Fox News eventually comes off as a circle of buffoons yapping catch phrases. The movie hammers its points and, like a Bush campaign stop, there’s no room for dissent.
09/17/04
Powerful stuff, and deserves to be seen -- by both sides of the political spectrum.
09/16/04
The kind of broader analysis that makes "Outfoxed" worthwhile viewing even for those who don't have Air America as one of their preset stations.
09/16/04
Outfoxed is a must-see for any Fox News aficionado interested in understanding what occurs behind the curtain.
09/10/04
Taken for what it is, Outfoxed is still worth watching, especially for the politically active.
09/09/04
Top Critic
Pure partisan warfare of the liberal stripe, to be sure, but that doesn't make it any less disturbing when discussing such a major shaper of public opinion as Fox, whose motto, judging from this film, more accurately should be 'You retort, we deride.'
09/05/04
An eye-opening look inside television news. The big lesson seems to be - don't believe everything you see on television (and probably only half of what you see at the movies).
09/03/04
Makes a crucial argument that has less to do with conservatives and liberals than with the coarsening of political discourse and the sinking standards of journalism and news -- subjects that go far beyond any particular news operation.
09/02/04
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