Review of Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) by Michael T — 12 Feb 2012

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.

This review of Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) was written by Michael T on 12 Feb 2012.

Fahrenheit 9/11 has generally received positive reviews.

Was this review helpful?

Yes

More reviews of this movie:

Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) Movie Reviews (665)
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) Critic Reviews (146)
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) User Reviews (519)

More Reviews of Fahrenheit 9/11

Review of Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)

By Cain L (235) on 28 Mar 2014

Humor and interesting, but overall, very anti-Bush…

Read Review

Review of Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)

By Henry H (81) on 17 Jul 2014

If anything, I only digest information that holds then two sides of the coin…

Read Review

Review of Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)

By Scott M (2,584) on 18 May 2015

Moore's documentary does it's best to paint the politics of the United States in a negative light…

Read Review

Review of Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)

By Steven H (490) on 10 Jul 2016

Michael Moore is aiming every canon towards G.W. Bush and the republicans, with a rather legal point…

Read Review

Review of Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 27 Dec 2014

The surprising thing about Michael Moore's polemic is not one-sidedness, which was a given: It's his failure to find devastating new weapons…

Read Review

Review of Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)

By Carlos M (2,069) on 04 Jan 2017

At the risk of making his film sound too preachy, Michael Moore examines with a lot of sardonic humor the causes behind one of the most shameful…

Read Review

Review of Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)

By Eduardo L (198) on 08 Jun 2018

More comical than true; Fahrenheit 9/11 is too one-sided and awkward for me to find interesting…

Read Review

Review of Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)

By Geewah (593) on 29 Jan 2022

A very one-sided view in this doco from Moore, but none the less a compelling, thought provoking, and at times funny look at Bush's war in Iraq…

Read Review

Review of Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)

By Kirk Honeycutt (1,481) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 10 Aug 2015

Moore stays on message here from first shot to last. There is no debate, no analysis of facts or search for historical context…

Read Review

Review of Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)

By Elvar Freyr E (23) on 08 Jun 2018

More comical than true; Fahrenheit 9/11 is too one-sided and awkward for me to find interesting…

Read Review

More reviews of this movie

Reviews of Similar Movies

Review of The War Room (1993)

By Kenneth H (222) on 17 Oct 2011

The War Room was good in that it took us behind-the-scenes into the 1992 Bill Clinton presidential campaign, but it did so in a very disorganized…

Read Review

Review of Acorn and the Firestorm (2017)

By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 Apr 2018

ACORN and the Firestorm fumbles with the media story, offering cable-news talking heads in montage but not digging deeply into how the story…

Read Review

More Reviews

Popular Movies Right Now

Barbarian

2022

72%115 Reviews

The Platform

2019

70%94 Reviews

No Hard Feelings

2023

65%90 Reviews

Terrifier 2

2022

64%48 Reviews

Hillbilly Elegy

2020

61%141 Reviews

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

2021

66%228 Reviews

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

2023

85%233 Reviews

The Equalizer

2014

69%994 Reviews

Split

2017

71%1,218 Reviews

Spider-Man: No Way Home

2021

79%458 Reviews

Movies You Viewed Recently

Fahrenheit 9/11

2004

68%665 Reviews

Bruiser

2000

46%83 Reviews

It Follows

2015

72%1,108 Reviews

Paris When It Sizzles

1964

64%183 Reviews

Swinging with the Finkels

2011

36%55 Reviews

The Last Broadcast

1998

60%77 Reviews

Joshua

2007

57%568 Reviews

Krampus

2015

60%924 Reviews

Final Exam

1981

38%40 Reviews

Boogeyman 3

2008

39%70 Reviews