Sicko Critic Reviews
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Sicko will scare people, and it probably should.Read the full review
Sicko is likely Moore's most important, most impressive, most provocative film, and it's different from his others in significant ways.Read the full review
Michael Moore intelligently, comically and incisively diagnoses and calls for the treatment of a sick U.S. health care system.Read the full review
Sicko is Moore's best, most focused movie to date -- much more persuasive than the enraged and self-righteous "Fahrenheit 9/11."Read the full review
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.Read the full review
Highly entertaining and informative.Read the full review
In a summer of dumb, shameless drivel, Moore delivers a movie of robust mind and heart. You'll laugh till it hurts.Read the full review
The Cuban escapade, designed to provoke, backfires when he loses focus by including Cuban firefighters in an homage to 9/11 first responders.Read the full review
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.Read the full review
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.Read the full review
