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By Ian Buckwalter (369) for DCist (403) on 08 Jun 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…

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By Kelly Vance (1,015) for East Bay Express (1,012) on 05 May 2010

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

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By Kat Brown (16) for thelondonpaper (91) on 21 Sep 2009

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

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By Fernando F. Croce (840) for CinePassion (694) on 26 Aug 2009

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

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 17 Jul 2009

Lots of Sicko stands as boffo political theater, but its major domo lost me by losing his sense of humor…

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By Peter Keough (994) for Boston Phoenix (1,372) on 22 Apr 2009

Maybe the film will cause a momentary stir and then fade, like Moore's other efforts, because the sickness is not just in the health-care industry…

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By Jennie Kermode (588) for Eye for Film (1,537) on 17 Oct 2008

Sicko is an interesting film with a lot of very important things to say…

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By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR.org (106) on 17 Oct 2008

There's plenty of grandstanding, most of it very funny. And in this instance, all that sizzle is selling the steak…

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By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

The priorities are humane by default, and he's strong on testimony from people who've been chewed up and spit out by our system -- and not…

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By Sean Gandert (81) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 30 Jul 2008

For the first time, the targets of Moore's film need not fear the bearded, heavyset man; instead they should be worried about his audience…

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By Kirk Honeycutt (1,481) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 18 May 2008

Michael Moore intelligently, comically and incisively diagnoses and calls for the treatment of a sick U.S. health care system…

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By J. Hoberman (756) for Village Voice (8,525) on 12 Apr 2008

It’s as a rhetorician that Moore is most original and effectively demagogic…

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By David Nusair (3,363) for Reel Film Reviews (3,339) on 05 Mar 2008

primarily comes off as an uneven effort that's sporadically as superfluous as it is interesting…

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By Jeff Bayer (445) for The Scorecard Review (437) on 03 Mar 2008

Moore's mere presence becomes politicizing, but this film attempts to make people realize the health of people in this country should have…

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By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Baltimore Sun (1,823) on 29 Feb 2008

Infuriating and funny, the film forges a disturbing diagram from the avarice and chaos of a slapdash, heartless system…

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By Bruce Bennett (577) for Spectrum (St. George, Utah) (575) on 04 Jan 2008

While no rational person would believe Castro and Hillary are to be exalted, its medical horror stories are absolutely believable by anyone…

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By Marlow Stern (69) for Manhattan Movie Magazine (35) on 18 Dec 2007

Prepare to laugh (nervously), cry and be outraged…

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By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 18 Nov 2007

The problem with Sicko--one endemic to Moore documentaries in general--is that it never confronts any challenges to its position, which can…

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By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 08 Nov 2007

The Cuban escapade, designed to provoke, backfires when he loses focus by including Cuban firefighters in an homage to 9/11 first responders…

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By Derek Malcolm (772) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 25 Oct 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…

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