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

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

Fair and balanced, as Fox News might say, this is not.

| May 3, 2005

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 7, 2005

Ranks, as a work of cinema, with the best of Santiago Alvarez and Esfir Shub.

| Oct 6, 2004

This is the most comprehensive diatribe ever filmed against Bush and his cronies (even though, by necessity, it is focused primarily on Iraq).

Full Review | Aug 7, 2004

This is Moore's most powerful movie -- the largest in scope, the most resourceful and skillful in means -- and the best things in it have little to do with his usual ideological take on American power and George Bush.

Full Review | Aug 1, 2004

Sometimes slipshod in its making and juvenile in its travesty, and of course it has no interest in overall fairness to Bush. But it vents an anger about this presidency that, as the film's ardent reception shows, seethes in very many of us.

Full Review | Jul 11, 2004

It's sprawling at times, but still uncomfortable, angry viewing in a time when apathy and resignation rule.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 9, 2004

An enormous film, an angry film, a flawed film and often a very, very funny film.

Full Review | Jul 3, 2004

Little of this information is new, but Moore packages what's already known about George W. Bush and his presidency into a piece of rhetoric so persuasive that the Bush reelection campaign could spend the next five months trying to refute it.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 3, 2004

What is new, and why viewing Moore's film will be such a powerful, wrenching experience for so many people, is the situation of sitting in a darkened theatre and watching as a steady tapestry of craven presidentiality unfurls for two hours.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 3, 2004

Potent and infuriating.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 30, 2004

Undeniably galvanizing, immensely watchable and damned good filmmaking.

| Jun 30, 2004

I urge all my readers to see the film and judge it for yourselves. It is, at the very least, one of the most thought-provoking releases of the year.

| Jun 30, 2004

An unabashedly partisan challenge both to the administration and to all who accept what they are told without questioning...If this be treason, make the most of it!

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jun 25, 2004

The best thing about Fahrenheit 9/11 is that viewers can disagree with the filmmaker's own assessment that the war was fought for money and power but still emerge with some healthy questions of their own.

| Jun 25, 2004

Unlike Bowling For Columbine, which editorially often seemed something less than the sum of its sketch-comedy parts, Fahrenheit 9/11 makes its case carefully and clearly.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 25, 2004