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Sicko

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Sicko reviews
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7.4 User Score:

Generally favorable reviews

Based on 39 critic reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Documentary

Written by: Michael Moore

Directed by: Michael Moore

Release Date:
Theatrical: June 29, 2007
DVD: November 6, 2007

Running Time: 113 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

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)

What The Critics Said

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100

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

Sicko will scare people, and it probably should.

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91

Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow

Infuriating and funny, the film forges a disturbing diagram from the avarice and chaos of a slapdash, heartless system.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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88

New York Daily News Jack Mathews

Moore's most assured, least antagonistic and potentially most important film.

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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.

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88

USA Today Claudia Puig

Highly entertaining and informative.

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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.

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88

Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey

It is not a polemic but a plea.

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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."

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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.

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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.

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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.

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80

Empire Simon Crook

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

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80

Time Richard Corliss

As both harangue and movie tragicomedy, Sicko is socko.

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80

LA Weekly Ella Taylor

The movie is a great piece of populist outrage and a dangerously good comedy about a looming American tragedy.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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75

Premiere Glenn Kenny

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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70

Village Voice J. Hoberman

It’s as a rhetorician that Moore is most original and effectively demagogic.

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70

Film Threat Pete Vonder Haar

Sicko Is flawed and occasionally stretches to make its point, but the movie's message speaks for itself.

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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.

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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.

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70

Newsweek David Ansen

The simplicity of Sicko's argument is also its power.

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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.

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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.

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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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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 7.4 (out of 10) based on 201 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Chris D. gave it a10:
I was very surprised at this movie, it is a very effective documentary of the various health care systems of the world. Many will say that Moore is at it again, but I think he has shown (again) what a remarkable filmmaker he really is. I wept during one scene, and I never weep (maybe get teary every once in a awhile...), it was devastating to see and hear these horrible incidences happening to regular, hardworking people. You can say what you will about Michael Moore (I don't agree with some of his positions personally), but his movie has done an excellent job of exposing our country's completely broken and corrupt system of health care, and hopefully the dialog surrounding this movie will move politicians to rethink their position on universal health care.

[Anonymous] gave it a9:
Saw it yesterday. Were funny, I was amused, thinking about buying it was I find it on the sale. Moore made the mockery of out America politics and made me feel pretty good here in Finland (with Universal Medicare of course :)). Kinda hard to rate it as a movie, still I think Moore did very well to find some sort of road that lead the movie forward, even included climax in the end. About the cause... it's pretty sad how things are in America when it comes to Healhcare. Like I have always said, I like the country but don't really care for their politics.

Adam gave it a10:
A lot of Americans remind me of ostrichs that stick there head in the sand once something critical or frightening is said. I am an Australian and at the end of the movie all I could was feel sorry for you, australia has a free universal medicare system, that give all people a right to medical care, and if you want more priority you can pay extra for private healthcare, which is also not as expensive as it subsidized by the government. Even if 1/10 of what moore says is true, Americans really need to start thinking that universal Medical Care is a right for all American swhether your rich or poor, with or without insurance, and that your fellow man is not just a number or a dollar value but they are living human beings with feelings. I hope for your sake the majority voters can give you guys a system that provides healthcare that your entitled too, all healthcare systems are not perfect but they gotta be a hellva lot better then what you have at the moment. The movie was good and made me think how lucky I am, although this the French are luckier, could us ea free once a week nanny. smile.

A S gave it a10:
For the immigrants from the third world nation, we think that out of all the western countries, United States of America is the best country to live in. But after watching a couple of movies including Michael Moore's Sicko, I think that U.S.A is very similar to that of the Third world nations. For example, leaders are very much corrupt in Third world nations .. but after watching Sicko, I think that leaders are more corrupt in USA.. I think USA should switch to Universal Healthcare System ... and Mr. Moore if you are reading this .. plz bear in mind that we all are after you .. WE are there to support you .. Good Job!!

Berend gave it an8:
It is a good documentary. But I'm not going to react further on it, I'm going toe react on the people who gave it a 0 and on the people who think that the American health care system is very good for everyone. The American system is good for everyone who has enough money if you don't have enough money then it's you're problem, and I think that EVERYONE has the right on health care no matter how much money you earn. I live in the Netherlands (for stupid people Holland) and we have public health care and it is very good the Nethelands is number 17 on the list and America? America is number 37 on the list (http://www.photius.com/rankings/healthranks.html). So I think Moore is right something has to be done at you're health care system thingie.

Dr. Michael E. gave it a9:
If Moore had gone into details, opponents would yell that he got too distracted by minutiae, that it's going to be unworkable, too expensive, etc. I was so moved by this movie that I've set about to find reasons not to change my opposition to universal health care. Michael Moore is clearly a hero here, and he has class: Look at his $12,000 anonymous donation for health care for an anti-Moore webmaster whose wife needed an operation. I know that I would not have had that kind of class (and yes, I realize that by putting this in the film the donation was no longer anonymous, but it was at the time).

Jared C. gave it a7:
It was all right, wasn't the best documentary I've seen.

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