Fahrenheit 11/9
GathrFilms | Release Date: September 21, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 46 Critic Reviews
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100
SalonSophia A. McClennenSep 8, 2018
This film really is Moore’s tour de force — a forceful, moving, and compelling call to action. A number of Michael Moore’s films have made history. This time he’s asking his audience to be the ones to do it. Read full review
100
Film ThreatAndy HowellSep 8, 2018
Fahrenheit 11/9 is a call to action and a powerful one at that. It really brings something to the table that we’ve been missing, and something that most of the mainstream media is not well equipped to deliver, but Michael Moore is — emotion about injustice. Read full review
91
The PlaylistVictor StiffSep 8, 2018
An angry, provocative conversation starter designed to shake viewers loose of their political indifference and inspire them to take up the charge, the rousing picture deserves to sit at the table recognized as one of Moore’s best work. Read full review
90
Film Journal InternationalStephen Whitty Sep 20, 2018
Even if you disagree with Moore, it’s hard not to admire his bravura filmmaking. Read full review
90
Rolling StonePeter TraversSep 19, 2018
One of Moore’s best and most incisively funny films — right up there with "Roger & Me" (1989), "Bowling for Columbine" (2002) and "Sicko" (2007) — his latest goes way past taking potshots at the Donald, though it does that with piercing intelligence and wounding wit. Read full review
90
SlateSam AdamsSep 13, 2018
Moore’s overarching points hit home with such force that sweating the details would be like picking fleas off a charging grizzly. Read full review
90
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinSep 9, 2018
This isn’t his smoothest film, but it’s his fullest and most original. It’s also his most urgent, which is really saying something. It’s one of the most urgent films ever made. Read full review
89
Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenSep 19, 2018
Technically, what’s on display may not be the Oscar winner’s finest go at filmmaking, but never has his message seemed more urgent and unaffected. Read full review
83
ConsequenceSarah KurchakSep 8, 2018
In a climate where far too much entertainment passes itself off as “resistance” for making empty gestures and landing easy punchlines, this is at least a step toward a more honest and open look at what America has always been, what it really is now, and what it’s going to take to make it live up to even a fraction of its dream. Read full review
80
The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeNov 8, 2018
It’s not subtle – at one point he grafts Trump’s voice on to footage of Hitler addressing a Nazi rally. But subtle was never in Moore’s cinematic vocabulary. Read full review
80
EmpireDan JolinOct 22, 2018
An uneven but appropriately rousing attack on Trump, which occasionally loses its focus as it makes its bigger, scarier points about the United States’ slide into despotism. Read full review
80
Paste MagazineOktay Ege Kozak Oct 3, 2018
This is the most engaging and emotionally effective Moore doc since Bowling for Columbine. Read full review
80
We Got This CoveredLuke ParkerSep 22, 2018
Michael Moore points all 17 of his fingers in all directions during his latest ferocious, if scrambled film, surprisingly avoiding individual attacks and instead convincingly describing what role we all played in this globally-recognized disaster. Read full review
80
Time OutJoshua RothkopfSep 20, 2018
What makes Moore’s latest so ferocious—and pound for pound his most effective piece of journalism—is the way it pivots to a meaty central subject that isn’t Trump but has prescient echoes. Read full review
80
TheWrapSteve PondSep 20, 2018
Fahrenheit 11/9 grows slowly from an exhausting movie that is all over the map to a rousing one that makes a call to arms in troubled times. Read full review
80
The New York TimesGlenn KennySep 20, 2018
Mr. Moore recognizes an affinity he shares with the president — also a showman. So he is in a nearly unique position to shame the viewer with a frank perspective on how Mr. Trump used his extrovert side to make citizens complacent about the less savory aspects of his character. Read full review
80
The GuardianGwilym MumfordSep 8, 2018
The danger of the whole thing collapsing under the weight of its own convolutedness is ever present. That it doesn’t is due to the power of Moore’s closing argument. Read full review
75
ObserverRex ReedSep 21, 2018
In most of his broadsides, the director is right. But like most of his incendiary docs, he fails to fully investigate both sides of the issues, overlooking or fudging the facts to cry “Hypocrisy!” whenever it suits him. That being said, I still applaud his courage and wit while he does it. Read full review
75
Movie NationRoger MooreSep 20, 2018
The stunts are old hat and the recycling makes Fahrenheit 11/9 longer and more of a drag than it needs to be. He doesn’t really have an ending, just a string of open-ended warnings and uncanny resemblances to Germany in the 1930s. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperSep 20, 2018
We know where Moore stands on the political spectrum, but Fahrenheit 11/9 isn’t an anti-Republican screed. He’s arguing, quite convincingly, it’s the system that’s broken, with career politicians on both sides of the aisle culpable and accountable. Read full review
75
Original-CinLiam LaceySep 20, 2018
For the old fans, there are a few splashes of Moore’s caustic levity. Read full review
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Simon HouptSep 12, 2018
It doesn’t all hang together, but its furious, ramshackle energy does the job, and maybe that’s all that matters: Outrage, after all, aims to spur action, not land four-star movie reviews. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoSep 10, 2018
The scattershot approach sometimes works to the detriment of his message, but “Fahrenheit 11/9” is ultimately Moore’s best film in years because its message is really simple and nonpartisan: get mad about something and do something about it. Read full review
75
IndieWireEric KohnSep 8, 2018
It might not be his best filmmaking, but Fahrenheit 11/9 is fraught with a critical mindset that syncs with the zeitgeist. It’s a messy movie for messy times. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleSep 20, 2018
Fahrenheit 11/9 may be a scattered summing-up of bad origins, and a loose blame game about our present corrosiveness, but what gives it its sear is its message of a ruptured country as eminently fixable, as long as wishing and hoping is replaced by organizing and doing. Read full review
70
VoxAlissa WilkinsonSep 8, 2018
Moore still suffers from bouts of self-aggrandizement and snide generalization. But they feel jarringly out of place, and in a good way. That’s because, for a great deal of the film, Moore cedes the floor to people whose voices are not as easily heard, or who have had to fight to have a voice at all. Read full review
70
VarietyOwen GleibermanSep 8, 2018
The movie, in its way, summons something ominous and powerful. It’s not a screed — it’s a warning. It says, quite wisely: Take action now, or you may no longer have the opportunity to do so. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungSep 8, 2018
The multiple targets and multiple threads which weave in and out of Fahrenheit 11/9 make it feel jumpy at times.... Nonetheless, there is much food for thought in the film, shot with the director’s characteristic passion, flair, wicked sense of humor and willingness to push the envelope. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Sep 19, 2018
As one might expect, it’s not his most focused act of impassioned muckraking. Read full review
65
Vanity FairK. Austin CollinsSep 22, 2018
Fahrenheit 11/9 does what Moore has done best, or at least most, throughout his career. It’s a sprawling, big-mouthed, big-hearted mess of a polemic, equal parts righteously impassioned and unforgivably dubious. It’s a rip-roaring airing of grievances from a man who has only ever used his substantial platform to get shit off of his chest. Read full review
63
The Associated PressJocelyn NoveckSep 26, 2018
Whether Moore’s frenetic but absorbing work here — the cinematic equivalent of a Jackson Pollock painting, where you throw everything and some of it sticks — pleases or frustrates you, one thing is clear. Moore’s at his best when hitting a subject dear to his heart. Read full review
63
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanSep 20, 2018
Hope may be a commodity that’s in short supply by the time that Fahrenheit 11/9 has finished painting its unsettling portrait of an America in crisis. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneKatie WalshSep 20, 2018
An emotional and intellectual roller coaster. Moore swings for the fences, as he usually does. But the film, done in Moore's traditionalist maximalist style, is overblown and overstuffed with editorial indulgences. It's clear that stylistically and structurally, less should be more for Moore. Read full review
63
Philadelphia Daily NewsGary ThompsonSep 19, 2018
The most engaging passages in the scattershot Fahrenheit 11/9 address the water scandal in Flint. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawOct 18, 2018
Moore never quite settles on a single, compelling riposte to Trump, never really hones his arguments to a piercing arrowhead of counterattack. Instead, he rambles over almost everything … entertainingly, but confusingly, ending on an image of Parkland School shooting survivor Emma González. Read full review
60
CineVueChristopher MachellSep 10, 2018
His scattershot approach means that the film frequently wanders off topic, in pursuit of a litany of social, economic and political injustices. Read full review
60
Screen DailyTim GriersonSep 8, 2018
As is often the case with Moore’s impassioned documentaries, 11/9 frustrates as much as it rouses, bouncing from topic to topic without fully digging into any of them. As such, it’s a highlight reel of grievances against government, corporations and the status quo that preaches to the choir. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliSep 24, 2018
In his latest diatribe, Moore throws everything at the viewer including the kitchen sink and hopes something – anything – will stick. Sadly, not much does. Read full review
50
The New YorkerAnthony LaneSep 24, 2018
The film will neither change minds nor soothe embittered hearts, I fear, and an opportunity has been missed. Read full review
50
L.A. WeeklyJason BaileySep 20, 2018
The problem with Fahrenheit 11/9 is that it’s Trump’s Fahrenheit 9/11 rather than Trump’s Roger & Me. Read full review
45
The AtlanticDavid SimsSep 20, 2018
It’s a disjointed, occasionally powerful, often grating grab bag of recent political events, a mess that’s forgivable only because it does reflect the messy state of the world. Read full review
40
The TelegraphTim RobeyOct 23, 2018
Perhaps the unexpected ascendancy of Trump is simply no laughing matter – there are precious few zingers hitting home on this occasion. Or maybe what’s demanded by Moore’s one-man leviathan hunting is a less rusty set of harpoons. Read full review
40
Arizona RepublicKerry LengelSep 20, 2018
This brand of gonzo journalism was effective in Moore’s 1989 debut about Flint and General Motors, “Roger & Me,” but it has long since devolved into self-parody. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeMark FeeneySep 19, 2018
Moore shows newsreel footage of Hitler delivering a speech. Only it’s not Hitler’s voice we hear. It’s Trump’s. Get it? Sure you do, and as you do the documentary slips the surly bonds of sanity — even of agitprop — to enter a realm of its own polemical making. Words cannot do justice to such an editorial decision. Well, maybe five can: intellectually null and morally contemptible. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineJake ColeSep 14, 2018
Fahrenheit 11/9 represents a sincerely bold attempt to capture the overwhelming civic decay that led to our current political crisis, but Michel Moore’s circus-showman duplicity is as crass and abhorrently self-promoting as that of Donald Trump. Read full review
30
Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonSep 20, 2018
Almost the entire movie is lifted from other sources, and then edited in a way that makes his enemies (do they know they’re his enemies?) look as foolish as possible. The punditry is trite. The snark is boring. Read full review
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