Michael Moore's view on how the Bush administration allegedly used the tragic events on 9/11 to push forward its agenda for unjust wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Little of this information is new, but Moore packages what's already known about George W. Bush and his presidency into a piece of rhetoric so persuasive that the Bush reelection campaign could spend the next five months trying to refute it.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
3 Jul 2004
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An enormous film, an angry film, a flawed film and often a very, very funny film.
– Andrew O'Hehir,
Salon.com,
3 Jul 2004
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Sometimes slipshod in its making and juvenile in its travesty, and of course it has no interest in overall fairness to Bush. But it vents an anger about this presidency that, as the film's ardent reception shows, seethes in very many of us.
– Stanley Kauffmann,
The New Republic,
11 Jul 2004
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This is Moore's most powerful movie -- the largest in scope, the most resourceful and skillful in means -- and the best things in it have little to do with his usual ideological take on American power and George Bush.
– David Denby,
New Yorker,
1 Aug 2004
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This is the most comprehensive diatribe ever filmed against Bush and his cronies (even though, by necessity, it is focused primarily on Iraq).