Bowling for Columbine
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 188 Ratings
- Summary: Famed documentarian Michael Moore returns with his first feature film in five years, as he tackles the issue of America's unique obsession with firearms.
- Director: Michael Moore
- Genre(s): History, Documentary
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Positive: 24 out of 32
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Mixed: 8 out of 32
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100Moore's best movie, and one of the most blisteringly effective polemics and documentaries ever.
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80When he follows his nose -- say, by tracing his own connections to Eric Harris, one of the Columbine shooters -- he implicates himself in what he hates and fears, and he emerges as a wounded patriot searching for a small measure of clarity. [28 October 2002, p. 119]
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80Often uproariously funny, even though much of its queasy power comes from its acknowledgment that some matters are too horrifying to be washed away with cheap laughter, or packaged into soundbites.
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60Something appalling about the way he turns to the camera with a look of sorrow: Michael Moore as a suffering Christ. It's an insult to his own movie, which at its considerable best transcends his thuggish personality.
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Positive: 89 out of 128
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Mixed: 4 out of 128
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Negative: 35 out of 128
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