Sicko Reviews


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  3. The New York Times: Sicko Review (June 22, 2007)
  4. RogerEbert.com: Sicko Review (June 29, 2007)
  5. Entertainment Weekly: Sicko Review (June 29, 2007)
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Sicko Reviews (Good)

  • SFGate.com: Sicko Review  WARNING: Pop-ups
    • "Michael Moore does something very shrewd in "Sicko," his new documentary about the health care crisis in America. He doesn't address his film to the 50 million Americans who don't have health care, but to the 250 million who do."
  • Los Angeles Times: Sicko Review
    • "Moore is back again examining America's healthcare system in the aptly named "Sicko." It's likely his most important, most impressive, most provocative film, and it's different from his others in significant ways."
  • The Austin Chronicle: Sicko Review (4/4)
    • "Though we will differ on the methods of improving the American health-care system, Sicko’s enduring contribution is the undeniable evidence that the system is broken. If the film brings the debate out into the open of our movie lobbies and living rooms, it can’t be long before the conversation trickles into the corridors of Congress."
  • Rolling Stone: Sicko Review (3.5/4)
    • "Note to the president: Here’s your chance to lock up Michael Moore. The radically fierce and funny fireball he aims at our health-care system is a flat-out invitation to steal."
  • USATODAY.com: Moore wields a Sharp Scalpel in Ambitious Sicko (3.5/4)
    • "This being a Michael Moore documentary, fingers are pointed at politicians, from Richard Nixon to Hillary Clinton to George W. Bush, as well as at corporate CEOs. But the global perspective and sense that the system is mostly at fault keep the material from becoming too politically charged."
  • Philadelphia Inquirer: Moore's 'Sicko' Shows U.S. Health Care in Critical Condition (3.5/4)
    • "Moore's Sicko, the professional provocateur's most accomplished and fervent film, is what the movie doc prescribes for temporary relief from the chronic headache that is the American health-care system."

Sicko Reviews (Neutral)

  • Variety: Sicko Review
    • "Chief criticism of the film is that it paints too rosy a picture of the national health care of the countries he compares America to, including Canada, England, France -- and Cuba."
  • Washingtonpost.com: Sicko Review (3/4)
    • "The American health-care system is busted and Michael Moore is not the guy to fix it. His "Sicko," an investigation and indictment of a system choking on paperwork, greed, bad policy and countervailing goals, turns out to be a fuzzy, toothless collection of anecdotes, a few stunts and a bromide-rich conclusion."
  • The Village Voice: Dr. Feelgood
    • "Sicko has the clearest agenda of any Moore film, albeit one that dares not speak its name. Is there a more vivid image of human garbage than the spectacle of a Los Angeles hospital dumping indigent patients on skid row?"
  • Slate: Sick Joke  WARNING: Pop-ups
    • "Even those viewers who are ideologically in sync with Michael Moore can find plenty to critique in his methods: the gimmicks, the deck-stacking, the deliberate neglect of opposing points of view."
  • Chicago Reader: Dumb Like Me (3/4)
    • "All the studied dumbness notwithstanding, Moore does make some cogent arguments about how we could and should reconceptualize the very idea of "socialized medicine.""