| 100 |
Christian Science Monitor
This is an op-ed polemic, and it's refreshing to see one so skillfully produced by filmmakers with a shoestring budget and meager access to mainstream distribution. A must-see movie, no matter what your politics are.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Capable of astonishing even the already cynical.
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| 75 |
New York Daily News
The fourth documentary screed this summer to have grown out of the left's frustration with the nation's turn to the right. Keep 'em coming, I say.
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| 75 |
Boston Globe
A hardly fair, not especially balanced broadside that has the advantage of being correct.
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| 70 |
Chicago Reader
While largely effective, Greenwald's documentary is not a complete success.
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| 70 |
LA Weekly
The result is a fast-paced, brilliantly edited indictment that's as hard to turn away from as it is infuriating to watch. The irony, of course, is that Greenwald deploys the tricks of the trade every bit as knowingly as the evil geniuses at Fox.
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| 67 |
Austin Chronicle
Greenwald's doc is pure partisan warfare of the liberal stripe, to be sure, but that doesn't make it any less disturbing.
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| 63 |
Baltimore Sun
Partially financed by the liberal Move On.org, speaks most eloquently when it lets Fox News do the talking.
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| 60 |
Washington Post
Left-wing filmmaker's attempt to call foul on megamedia owner Murdoch's exclamation-point news network.
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| 60 |
Village Voice
Ed Halter
Already a top-selling DVD thanks to PR support from moveon.org, numerous media outlets, political blogs, and even Doonesbury, Outfoxed argues that Fox News's pro-Republican bias is top-down.
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| 60 |
Slate
When those talking heads metamorphose into familiar ranting heads, it becomes another mesmerizing right-wing horror show.
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| 50 |
Variety
The film lacks the accompanying media spotlight that boosted the Moore release and therefore appears unlikely to reach beyond a liberal audience with an already vehement aversion to Fox News' partisan coverage.
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| 50 |
The New York Times
Outfoxed will inevitably be discussed in the same breath (or with the same hyperventilating rage) as Michael Moore's ''Fahrenheit 9/11,'' but it lacks both the showmanship and the scope of that incendiary film.
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| 50 |
Salon.com
When you watch Greenwald's barrage of pirated Fox News footage -- his filmmaking techniques are clearly testing the outer limits of the "fair use" doctrine, and may yet land him in court -- it's an overwhelming experience well beyond the hoot-inducing moments.
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| 50 |
Los Angeles Times
Keeps its filmmakers behind the camera and does without the personality-driven "Fahrenheit's" sarcastic sense of humor.
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| 50 |
The Hollywood Reporter
Outfoxed would have benefited from a greater exploration of exactly why Fox News has become so popular and so trusted by its viewers.
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Washington Post
Paints an often grave but sometimes hilarious picture of a hugely powerful network.
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| 40 |
Film Threat
In throwing hatchets at Murdoch and his silly Fox network while pretending the rest of the media world is fine and objective, the film comes across as a shrill, one-note slam against a very easy target.
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| 25 |
New York Post
This furious finger-pointer's doc is so one-sided, it undermines its own integrity.
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