Synopsis
A documentary about the corrupt health care system in The United States who's main goal is to make profit even if it means losing people’s lives. "The more people you deny health insurance the more money we make" is the business model for health care providers in America.
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Cast
- Michael MooreSelf
- Tony BennSelf
- Tucker AlbrizziSelf
- Reggie CervantesSelf
- John GrahamSelf
- Aleida GuevaraSelf
- Bill MaherSelf
- Patrick PedrajaSelf
- Linda PeenoSelf
- Billy CrystalSelf (archive footage)
Recommendations
- 88
New York Daily News
Moore's most assured, least antagonistic and potentially most important film. - 88
Rolling Stone
In a summer of dumb, shameless drivel, Moore delivers a movie of robust mind and heart. You'll laugh till it hurts. - 88
USA Today
Highly entertaining and informative. - 75
Premiere
This is a movie, not a position paper, and Moore aims to entertain as he informs. - 75
ReelViews
As a documentary, this movie has the same problems as all of those in Moore's oeuvre; as a polemic or a visual op-ed piece, it's an effective piece of filmmaking. - 75
TV Guide Magazine
This being a Michael Moore film, the filmmaker is as enraging as the subject: His belligerent court-jester shtick wears thin fast and undermines the segments on universal health-care systems in Canada, the U.K., France and Cuba. - 70
Salon
While Sicko is the most persuasive and least aggravating of all of Moore's movies, it still bears many of the frustrating Moore earmarks -- most notably, a deliberately simplistic desire to render everything in black-and-white terms, as if he didn't trust his audience enough to follow him into some of the far more complex gray areas. - 70
The New York Times
Sicko is the least controversial and most broadly appealing of Mr. Moore’s movies. (It is also, perhaps improbably, the funniest and the most tightly edited.) The argument it inspires will mainly be about the nature of the cure, and it is here that Mr. Moore’s contribution will be most provocative and also, therefore, most useful.
