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Critics Consensus: Though it may not always convince, Bowling for Columbine asks important questions and provokes thought.
Critic Consensus: Though it may not always convince, Bowling for Columbine asks important questions and provokes thought.
All Critics (169) | Top Critics (33) | Fresh (160) | Rotten (9) | DVD (16)
It's both powerful and infuriating, brilliant and facile, hilarious and horrific, witty and demagogic. It's a great movie to argue about.
All in all, Mr. Moore has given us a lot to think about in Bowling for Columbine, and he has entertained us royally in the process.
Fascinating, thought-provoking, often fitfully funny and sometimes devastatingly sad.
A worthy successor to Roger & Me.
A sweeping, sometimes insightful and often funny look at America's culture of violence.
Bowling for Columbine would never be mistaken for even-handed, but it is at least a sincere attempt to find the source of this country's inability to curb gun violence and murder.
hits us with hard truths and thought-provoking inquiry while also making us laugh
Whatever, dude. Unlike Moore, I have homes on both sides of the border and it's the Quebec one I keep locked.
I don't like Michael Moore. He cheats. When a film is presented as a documentary we expect some kind of journalistic search for truth ... But questions he raises about guns and violence ...add an immediacy to questions he asks that we all need to answer.
Must-see gun violence documentary is brutal.
A frustrating film that asks more questions than answers.
Agree with his messages or not, there's no denying the effectiveness of Moore's presentation.
With the school shooting in Colorado as a starting point Moore questions America's mood and resolution: Are guns the answer to the difficulties our society faces, or in fact one of the many problems that must be addressed? Like a late night barroom political conversation he's a little all over the map and lacking direction but his concerns are more than valid. A solid think piece.
Super Reviewer
You may not agree with Moore's sometimes questionable methods, but there is no denying that he presents some very strong arguments in this important, thought-provoking exposé of what drives and motivates these occurrences in a country where fear is instilled into people by a crippled system.
Michael Moore examines the social climate which resulted in the massacre at Columbine High School, when two socially awkward students armed themselves with automatic weapons and went on a killing spree. Michael Moore is very much a Marmite kind of film maker; people either love or hate him and his one man crusades against the established way of thinking. I personally applaud his willingness to stand up to those who would suppress the truth to promote their own agenda and let's face it, the American corporate system is the biggest propaganda machine in the world so anyone claiming that Moore is "biased" really ought to be taking a closer look at his opposition. In Bowling For Columbine he surprisingly does not point the finger directly at US gun culture (although there has to be something to be said for Chris Rock's ammunition pricing system! If it works for cigarettes...) Instead he examines the economic climate in which the local community had been drained of employment and opportunity, the media's sensationalist, fear-mongering agenda and the lack of hope that the educational system cultivates within the disenfranchised. Occasionally a little heavy handed (ending on a confrontation with Charlton Heston which comes across as the meaningless harassment of an old man was a mistake) but always informative and entertaining.
A terrific portrait of a America full of fears and violence, a great masterpiece by Michael Moore. Fresh.
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