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

If other countries can provide their people with universal health care, why can't we? If we can't, who are we?

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Nov 8, 2007

Moore has again made a film which, though basically sound in logic, sugars the pill in a way which seems suspect in its determination to suggest that, as far as healthcare is concerned, America is bad and everywhere else is good.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 26, 2007

A devastating exposure of America's iniquitous healthcare system, coolly marshalled and amusingly detailed by Moore.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 26, 2007

Moore is rightly celebrated for his elaborately staged stunts and this film's highlight, involving a boat-trip to Cuba, is as hilarious as it is disturbing.

| Oct 26, 2007

If Moore were a more radical polemicist, he might have focused squarely on this alarming social injustice, but, perhaps rightly, he sees a broader one. Even the insured are handing themselves over to a bewildering lottery.

| Oct 26, 2007

Mr Moore's excellent new film is a wakeup call.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 26, 2007

While we all have our grumbles about the NHS, it's hard not to be caught up in Moore's righteous indignation on behalf of his countrymen, or not to feel a twitch of pride in our own.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 26, 2007

Horrifying, heart-breaking, often hilarious - Moore's latest shock doc is a potent polemic.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 24, 2007

Moore's commentary can grate, but his most brilliant prank - escorting a group of 911 workers to Cuba for free healthcare - manages to be political gelignite and intensely moving at the same time.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 23, 2007

Though the focus occasionally strays, the film emerges as a fascinating exploration and powerful indictment of a pressing national problem. This is Moore's biggest, best and most impassioned work.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 1, 2007

Metaphorically speaking, it goes straight for the jugular.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 10, 2007

'Sicko' is a quieter, more focused and less feral beast than its predecessor, 'Fahrenheit 9/11', but that's not saying much.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 19, 2007

One may quibble with Mr. Moore's anecdotal oversimplifications and his xenophilic fantasies, but he has struck a socio-psychic nerve in the body politic, generating a feeling of outrage that seems to be reverberating in every theater.

Full Review | Jul 18, 2007

This is a movie to see in a theater. It'a group experience. All through the show you'll hear people laughing, crying, muttering, cheering, sighing, swearing, and gasping. And at the end, chances are they'll be on their feet applauding.

| Jul 15, 2007

In moving away from the dirty arena of polemics, Sicko accomplishes something Moore has sought for quite some time: coherence.

Full Review | Jul 11, 2007

Sicko is worth seeing -- as long as the big grain of salt needed for it is put on more than just the popcorn.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 29, 2007

Even Moore's worst ideological enemies would be hard put to dispute the basic argument of his new film Sicko: The American health-care system is a sick joke and has been for a very long time.

| Jun 29, 2007

Moore has finally made a moving, whimsical, infuriating film that won't just infuriate the right-wingers who've made a cottage industry out of hating him nor sing to the liberal choir who supports even his shadiest arguments.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 29, 2007