The filmmaker has the habit ... of never going to the root of a problem. The lack of depth and seriousness, the extreme limitations of his conceptions are enormously debilitating.

| Feb 14, 2021

In Sicko, Michael Moore's irreverent comedy has become less bleating and more purposeful, perhaps in part because the times we live in have become more desperate.

| Jan 29, 2020

For the most part, this is a more restrained Moore and the result is another solid documentary that cements Moore's status as a filmmaker capable of making an audience laugh and think at the same time.

| Nov 21, 2019

The first line of attack exemplifies Moore at his maverick best... Less interesting or sustained are his rose-tinted views of European health service systems.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 3, 2018

This is the essential ill that Sicko addresses, in an eruption that's the most unruly and uncategorizable part of the whole movie, and the most unmistakably heartfelt. You want the truth? Moore can handle the truth.

| Apr 12, 2018

Sicko is wildly comic while tearing apart the country's health care system.

| Nov 30, 2017

Sicko offers still plenty to get riled up about, but the firebrand ire of Fahrenheit 9/11 seems to have mellowed a little.

| Aug 23, 2017

While Moore's sins aren't nearly as terrible or significant as those of the political system to which he stands opposed, his unabashed tendency to talk down to his audience is symptomatic of our culture of mediocrity.

| Jul 29, 2015

Equal parts laugh-riot and call to arms.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 5, 2013

In trying to decipher how Michael Moore has achieved his widespread popularity in the face of a somewhat cavalier attitude toward factual precision, there's no underestimating his savvy choice of targets.

| Aug 5, 2013

Though his politics are unmistakably left, the documentarian's targets are almost exclusively the powerful and his work is fueled by optimism rather than cynicism.

| Aug 5, 2013

More humble than Fahrenheit 9/11 and as enthralling as Bowling For Columbine, Sicko is another target hit square on the nose for America's premier documentalist.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 3, 2012

Soon we realize that Sicko hinges not on what Michael Moore is uncovering, but on what he's hiding. This is a real shame as he's a talented documentary maker.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 14, 2011

While much of Sicko is certainly propaganda, that should not deter anyone from seeing it or giving some credence to what Moore is saying, because what he is talking about is very real and very important.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 30, 2011

Saddening while it still bristles with satire, "Sicko" does dodge some of the larger political questions about healthcare reform. Plus, the Cuba stunt mars what is, up to that point, a relatively stunt-free film.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 25, 2010

Moore depoliticizes the health care crisis by humanizing it, and drops the polemic in favor of a plea: for us to care about each other a little more.

| Original Score: 8.5/10 | Jun 9, 2010

By now, it should only matter that Moore has been right about every social ill he's addressed.

| May 6, 2010

ranks among [Moore's] best

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 27, 2009

Laughs are thin on the ground, but this is a must-see by a film-maker at the height of his powers.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 22, 2009

The body politic deserves a finer thermometer than Michael Moore's camera

| Aug 27, 2009