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Like Bill Maher, his toxic smugness can be repellent, even if you agree with every word.
That belief can be quite moving, and it elevates his weaker efforts while electrifying his most epochal films.
Michael Moore may be a fool, but hes our fool.
There are so many good intentions here but also so many bum notes and misfires.
But lets be honest: Wed miss his rambunctiously undisciplined, impassioned works if he stopped making them.
Dont worry: The real villain was coming.
It should not be considered a surprise that Moore never made another fictional film.
If only Moore could have gotten more of them to listen.
(The Big Shortwould make the furious case so much better six years later.)
He does get points for showcasing both Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders before either was a mainstream figure.
Wed be seeing plenty of both of them soon enough.
Or more?).
But when this thing focuses on the pain the American health-care system has caused, it is searing.
Particularly when many of the same problems exist more than a decade later.
There are still jokes, butColumbinemight be the moment where Moore consciously pivoted away from satire.
After this film, anger and frustration would come to overwhelm his sense of humor about the nations ills.
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
The highest-grossing nonfiction film ever.
One of the few documentaries to win the prestigious Palme dOr at the Cannes Film Festival.
Moore may have only been the little guy once, but what a little guy he was.
