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71
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69
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67
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65
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64
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62
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61
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61
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58
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57
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57
Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D
57
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55
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55
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55
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54
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54
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53
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52
Mamma Mia!
49
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48
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47
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44
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43
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41
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37
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37
Shutter
37
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36
College Road Trip
36
What Happens in Vegas...
35
Jumper
35
Space Chimps
34
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34
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33
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31
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24
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22
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85
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27
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54
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81
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62
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36
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38
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30
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33
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56
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66
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70
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57
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61
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72
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81
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56
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54
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69
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71
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86
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61
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72
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64
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67
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75
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86
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86
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85
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85
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83
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83
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83
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83
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82
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81
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81
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80
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80
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80
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79
Reprise
79
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79
Before I Forget
78
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77
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76
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76
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75
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75
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74
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74
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73
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73
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
72
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72
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72
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72
Surfwise
71
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71
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71
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71
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71
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70
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70
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70
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70
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69
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69
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69
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68
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68
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67
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67
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66
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66
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66
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66
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65
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64
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64
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64
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64
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63
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63
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62
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62
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61
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61
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61
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61
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61
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60
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60
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59
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59
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58
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57
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57
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56
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56
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55
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55
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55
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55
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55
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54
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54
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54
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54
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53
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52
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52
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51
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51
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49
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48
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47
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47
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45
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39
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38
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37
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36
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33
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31
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30
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27
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Sicko
The Weinstein Company
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for brief strong language
Starring
Michael Moore
Sicko, filmmaker Michael Moore's new documentary, sets out to investigate the American healthcare system. Sticking to his tried-and true one-man approach, Moore sheds lights on the complicated medical affairs of individuals and local communities. (The Weinstein Company)
| GENRE(S): |
Documentary
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Michael Moore
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Michael Moore
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: November 6, 2007
Theatrical: June 29, 2007
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| RUNNING TIME: |
113 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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100
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Sicko will scare people, and it probably should.

91
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
Infuriating and funny, the film forges a disturbing diagram from the avarice and chaos of a slapdash, heartless system.

90
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Sicko is likely Moore's most important, most impressive, most provocative film, and it's different from his others in significant ways.

90
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
Michael Moore intelligently, comically and incisively diagnoses and calls for the treatment of a sick U.S. health care system.

89
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Though we will differ on the methods of improving the American health care system, Sicko's enduring contribution is the undeniable evidence that the system is broken. If the film brings the debate out into the open of our movie lobbies and living rooms, it can’t be long before the conversation trickles into the corridors of Congress.

88
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Moore's most assured, least antagonistic and potentially most important film.

88
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
In a summer of dumb, shameless drivel, Moore delivers a movie of robust mind and heart. You'll laugh till it hurts.

88
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Highly entertaining and informative.

88
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
I have only one complaint, and it is this: Every American should be as fortunate as I have been. As Moore makes clear in his film, some 50 million Americans have no insurance and no way to get it.

88
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
It is not a polemic but a plea.

88
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Sicko is Moore's best, most focused movie to date -- much more persuasive than the enraged and self-righteous "Fahrenheit 9/11."

83
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
Barring a middle-class revolt, it's extremely unlikely that, whatever its virtues, universal healthcare could ever take hold in America. Still, I'm glad Moore made his film.

83
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
With less lampooning and satirical asides, Sicko may be less "entertaining" than Moore's previous films, but it's also more affecting and effective.

83
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
The Cuban escapade, designed to provoke, backfires when he loses focus by including Cuban firefighters in an homage to 9/11 first responders.

80
Empire
Simon Crook
Horrifying, heart-breaking, often hilarious - Moore’s latest shock doc is a potent polemic.

80
Time
Richard Corliss
As both harangue and movie tragicomedy, Sicko is socko.

80
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
The movie is a great piece of populist outrage and a dangerously good comedy about a looming American tragedy.

80
New York Magazine
David Edelstein
Sicko is Moore’s best film: a documentary that mixes outrage, hope, and gonzo stunts in the right proportions; that poses profound questions about the connection between health care and work.

75
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
This being a Michael Moore film, the filmmaker is as enraging as the subject: His belligerent court-jester shtick wears thin fast and undermines the segments on universal health-care systems in Canada, the U.K., France and Cuba.

75
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Sicko doesn't formulate a way out of this heartless craps game we're playing. It is, however, a very entertaining position paper, and a reminder that we should do better by more of our citizenry.

75
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
The problem with Sicko--one endemic to Moore documentaries in general--is that it never confronts any challenges to its position, which can make it seem like the crudest sort of agitprop.

75
Premiere
Glenn Kenny
This is a movie, not a position paper, and Moore aims to entertain as he informs.

75
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
As a documentary, this movie has the same problems as all of those in Moore's oeuvre; as a polemic or a visual op-ed piece, it's an effective piece of filmmaking.

75
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
The film contains the usual Moore plusses and minuses, now familiar to anyone who's watched even one of his films.

75
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
Moore's movies may not always be fully accurate in their details, but they almost always spur vital national conversation.

75
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
Sicko occasionally returns to Bush, but it doles out the smacks equally on both sides of the political spectrum (Sen. Hillary Clinton gets hers, too).

75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rick Groen
The only country in the Western world without a universal system – is indeed Sicko. But if that social wound is gapingly obvious, so is this documentary.

70
Variety
Alissa Simon
An affecting and entertaining dissection of the American health care industry, showing how it benefits the few at the expense of the many.

70
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Lots of Sicko stands as boffo political theater, but its major domo lost me by losing his sense of humor.

70
Slate
Dana Stevens
Though it has its share of voice-over exposition and comic stock footage, the film's real purpose is to aggregate individual health-care horror stories into a portrait of the profit-driven and (literally) inhospitable place our country has become.

70
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
There are fewer jokes this time around, and Moore makes a point of not even appearing on-screen for a good 40 minutes, putting more emphasis on his arguments and less on his comic persona.

70
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
It’s as a rhetorician that Moore is most original and effectively demagogic.

70
Film Threat
Pete Vonder Haar
Sicko Is flawed and occasionally stretches to make its point, but the movie's message speaks for itself.

70
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
While Sicko is the most persuasive and least aggravating of all of Moore's movies, it still bears many of the frustrating Moore earmarks -- most notably, a deliberately simplistic desire to render everything in black-and-white terms, as if he didn't trust his audience enough to follow him into some of the far more complex gray areas.

70
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
Sicko is the least controversial and most broadly appealing of Mr. Moore’s movies. (It is also, perhaps improbably, the funniest and the most tightly edited.) The argument it inspires will mainly be about the nature of the cure, and it is here that Mr. Moore’s contribution will be most provocative and also, therefore, most useful.

70
Newsweek
David Ansen
The simplicity of Sicko's argument is also its power.

50
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
Ladies and gentlemen, I think we can agree on two things: The American health-care system is busted and Michael Moore is not the guy to fix it. His Sicko, an investigation and indictment of a system choking on paperwork, greed, bad policy and countervailing goals, turns out to be a fuzzy, toothless collection of anecdotes, a few stunts and a bromide-rich conclusion.

40
The New Yorker
David Denby
Michael Moore has teased and bullied his way to some brilliant highs in his career as a political entertainer, but he scrapes bottom in his new documentary, Sicko.

25
New York Post
Kyle Smith
The silliness of Moore's oeuvre is so self-evident that being able to spot it is not liberal or conservative, either; it's a basic intelligence test, like the ability to match square peg with square hole. His documentaries are political slapstick that could have been made by a third Farrelly brother or a fourth Stooge.


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