Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism

Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt

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.

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

Capable of astonishing even the already cynical.

New York Daily News Jack Mathews

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.

Boston Globe Ty Burr

A hardly fair, not especially balanced broadside that has the advantage of being correct.

Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum

While largely effective, Greenwald's documentary is not a complete success.

LA Weekly Hazel-Dawn Dumpert

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.

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

Greenwald's doc is pure partisan warfare of the liberal stripe, to be sure, but that doesn't make it any less disturbing.

Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach

Partially financed by the liberal Move On.org, speaks most eloquently when it lets Fox News do the talking.

Washington Post Desson Thomson

Left-wing filmmaker's attempt to call foul on megamedia owner Murdoch's exclamation-point news network.

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.

Slate David Edelstein

When those talking heads metamorphose into familiar ranting heads, it becomes another mesmerizing right-wing horror show.

Variety David Rooney

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.

The New York Times Dana Stevens

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.

Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir

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.

Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan

Keeps its filmmakers behind the camera and does without the personality-driven "Fahrenheit's" sarcastic sense of humor.

The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck

Outfoxed would have benefited from a greater exploration of exactly why Fox News has become so popular and so trusted by its viewers.

Washington Post Ann Hornaday

Paints an often grave but sometimes hilarious picture of a hugely powerful network.

Film Threat Phil Hall

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.

New York Post Megan Lehmann

This furious finger-pointer's doc is so one-sided, it undermines its own integrity.