Highest Rated Review by the Community
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Aug 07 '07
Pros: Some good points made, tame, interesting presentation...
Cons: Emotional manipulation, formulaic, maybe a little too tame
Summary: You could’ve asked me years ago how I felt about Michael Moore and I would have been straight up brown nosing, but at this stage of my life I am a bit more standoff. While Bowling For Columbine, his examination about the gun control in our ... read more
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Sep 07 '10
Pros: Shockingly truthful expose of what really goes in US healthcare
Cons: Somewhat lacking in showing the flaws of government-run healthcare systems
Summary: Three words: See this movie. No matter what your opinion of Michael Moore, this is a movie everyone should make a point of watching, and if you don't want to make Moore wealthier, borrow a friends copy when it comes out on DVD. Yes it's ... read more
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Jun 04 '08
Pros: A very good documentary with great points and interesting encounters.
Cons: Sometimes a bit pompous and sly.
Summary: The interesting thing about Michael Moore is that he has a great way of making a point, regardless of how many people hate his guts. The real heroes of the Michael Moore movies are really the editors who piece all of these things together. Fortunately ... read more
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May 06 '08
Pros: well executed, funny, touching, informative, and heart-breaking. A very "human" film.
Cons: loses a some of its momentum towards the end.
Summary: Michael Moore is good at what he does. He pieces the film together in such a way, that he creates suspense, injects a great deal of humor, and practically forces us to feel outrage. He makes it look effortless. Just prior to watching Sicko, I could ... read more
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Apr 21 '08
Pros: new
Cons: same
Summary: Sicko So you probably have heard how "documentarian" Michael Moore took a group of 9-11 survivors to Cuba for his new "documentary" (entitled Sicko) in a feeble attempt to show that socialism and communism makes for a better health care system or ... read more
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Jan 05 '08
Pros: Comprehensive, compassionate, wake up call
Cons: Did not address usual criticisms of foreign health care programs
Summary: At a time when many Americans use self-interest as a measure of whether they'll get involved in helping out "the tribe," Michale Moore stands on the hill and sounds the horn for common sense and revolution of compassionate, smart spending for US health ... read more
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Dec 18 '07
Pros: Factual, informative, forceful
Cons: Will leave you angry and upset about US health care
Summary: I thought I knew what to expect when I went to see Sicko. I've seen all of Moore's movies, so I am familiar with his penchant for melodrama. Sometimes it works, sometimes it undermines his point. For example, the tone of Roger & Me was dead on, but I ... read more
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Dec 14 '07
Pros: Informative
Pro-France!
Cons: I don't know that Michael Moore can pull off sincerity anymore.
Summary: Overall, I have to say this was an enjoyable documentary. It has enough accurate information and is so relevant to current American politics that most people should see it. Moreover,I appreciated the glimpses into other country's health systems. I ... read more
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Nov 09 '07
Pros: Shock value - expose' of a sick health care system
Cons: Weak, unbalanced, predictable
Summary: Sicko finally makes it to Belgium…but Michael Moore’s new film has left the Flemish public yawning. Most likely because it told us what we already knew: the US is a jungle of a society where people are left to die on the street among the general ... read more
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Sep 07 '07
Pros: Accurate, unbiased depiction of one of the most shameful and embarrassing problems in the U.S.
Cons: Some people won't get it, due to prejudice about Moore's style, political stance, previous films.
Summary: I have been a big fan of Michael Moore's since his first few films. As a writer and former news broadcaster, even the sometimes silly way he presents things, never changed my level of support and belief in his work. I believe that Fahrenheit 9/11, ... read more
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Aug 05 '07
Pros: Educational, Interesting, Funny, Scary
Cons: Overwrought Cuban treatment scene, Moore looks pale and sickly
Summary: Mr. Moore's methods have been called into question by many. Though Moore friends and foes alike bring up valid criticisms, no one has come within a hundred miles (160 kilometers for you folks in the Old World) of successfully arguing against any of the ... read more
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Jul 31 '07
Pros: A solid overview of healthcare in America and other lands
Cons: Doesn't look at another problem in American healthcare
Summary: In Sicko, Michael Moore reflects on the various tales of American healthcare woes he shares in his film and sadly wonders, "Who are we?" Americans have been told they live in a land of plenty. Some would say that America is most plentiful, ... read more
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Jul 22 '07
Pros: The film's first hour is simply harrowing.
Cons: When Moore ventures overseas, the movie begins to falter.
Summary: He's baaack. That incendiary ragamuffin Michael Moore returns to the big screen, and this time, he focuses his attention on the (sorry) state of the U.S. health care system. Whatever your politics, health care is an issue that affects every single ... read more
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Jul 20 '07
Pros: Aims at a very real problem.
Cons: Self-indulgent and melodramatic.
Summary: Michael Moore's movie Sicko is a sarcastic indictment of the American Health Care system, which Moore says is in the hands of a few greedy executives making millions in a criminal way, not that far removed from organized crime. It's as if Tony ... read more
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Jul 18 '07
Pros: You can laugh and know you are not alone in the US health care maze.
Cons: Michael Moore's lost weight! I and I have gained 15 pounds!
Summary: I have had a family member enter at his own risk into the patchwork health care system here in the US, and due to my devoting 20 hours a week to calling insurance companies, begging doctors, keeping my own records of his ailments and medication, he ... read more
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