Like its Palme d’Or win, Fahrenheit 9/11 is such a product of its time and the sentiment of the world in 2004, but its legacy is one of success and failure depending on what aspect you’re looking at.

| May 15, 2024

Fahrenheit 9/11 is an admirable film, remarkable in certain parts, done with considerable and heart-felt sincerity.

| Feb 15, 2021

A documentary tour de force that transcends mere finger-pointing and name-calling for a much higher purpose.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 5, 2019

The good stuff -- and there's some extremely good stuff -- keeps getting tainted by Mr. Moore's poison-camera penchant for drawing dark inferences from dubious evidence.

| Jan 7, 2019

In all, Fahrenheit 9/11 is a great counterpoint to the Fox News brand of propaganda. It's also a crusade in its own way.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 7, 2019

When a director who's not exactly known for admirable forbearance suddenly starts exercising it, you can't help wondering why. Later on in the movie, the old forbearance goes out the window.

| Jan 27, 2018

The movie works by the primal curiosity that lured people into nickelodeons, the desire to see what comes next in the string of attractions; and unlike some of those nickelodeon operators, Moore makes good on the promise.

| Aug 21, 2017

Much more than a scathing indictment of Dubya-era complicity, Michael Moore's exposé lays bare the devastating heartbreak now central to America's wartime reality.

| Nov 19, 2013

Controversial documentary best for older teens.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 24, 2010

Michael Moore's fierce and funny Fahrenheit 9/11 is not so much a documentary as a mythology, reducing geopolitical complexities to a neat, tawdry narrative.

| Jun 3, 2009

People say Moore is Un-American for creating a documentary against the president, well, it's Un-American not to explore other's views.

| Apr 29, 2009

Populist documentarian Michael Moore raises crucial questions about the ersatz presidency of George Bush in an air of simplicity and honest curiosity.

| Original Score: A | Apr 18, 2009

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2008

Isn't quite the bullseye Moore's supporters are hoping for and Bush's supporters are dreading.

| Original Score: B | Feb 3, 2008

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 7, 2007

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 14, 2007

If all the world is truly a stage, then leftie bad boy Michael Moore is chief scavenger of the behind-the-scenes skeletons in the storage closet.

Full Review | May 24, 2007

The problem with Fahrenheit 9/11 is not that it is one-sided, per se; it is that Moore barely acknowledges there even is another side.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 28, 2006

Fahrenheit is, by turns, entertaining, incisive, infuriating, heartbreaking and (this being Moore) slickly populist

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 21, 2006

I want to hug Michael Moore. Then slap him.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 2, 2006