Sicko (2007)
Dog Eat Dog Films

Description

Writer/producer Michael Moore interviews Americans who have been denied treatment by our health care insurance companies -- companies who sacrifice essential health services in order to maximize profits. The consequences for the individual subscribers range from bankruptcy to the unnecessary deaths of loved ones.

Collected reviews and ratings

9.0 documentaryfilms.net | Michael Rose

His film veers from humor to pathos, to tragedy to adventure as he dissects the reasons we (the United States) haven’t adopted a system like the rest of the industrialized democracies loosely defined as single payer national health care.
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8.0 Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

A key to Moore's technique is his folksy, faux-naïve persona, complete with puzzled looks a silent-film star would envy and a way of asking disingenuous questions he already knows the answers to in a voice that plays with listeners the way Heifetz played the violin.
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8.0 Empire | Simon Crook

Perhaps inevitably, Moore’s weakness for sentiment over-sweetens the pill. But this remains impassioned cinema, a warning of the corrupting power of corporations and their assault on democratic values.
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7.5 ReelViews | James Berardinelli

The movie is well put together, if a little long (the sequences in Canada, England, and France could be shortened), but there's a good mix of humor and pathos. Sicko is flawed but effective.
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7.0 Variety | Alissa Simon

Pic's most dramatic (and now controversial) tactic involves Moore taking a group to Cuba that includes 9/11 rescue volunteers with medical problems that haven't been covered by insurance.
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7.0 Wall Street Journal | Joe Morgenstern

One might also ask what's new here. Coming at a time when America's health care system is being scrutinized and debated as never before, "Sicko" covers familiar ground. Yet the question misses the point, for the movie's appeal lies at the intersection of its timing and style.
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7.0 New York Times | A. O. Scott

Any filmmaker, politically outspoken or not, whose work is worth discussing will be argued about. But in Mr. Moore’s case the arguments are more often about him than about the subjects of his movies.
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7.0 Salon.com | Stephanie Zacharek

While "Sicko" is, in my view, the most persuasive and least aggravating of all of Moore's movies, it still bears many of the frustrating Moore earmarks.
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7.0 DVD Talk | Phil Bacharach

While Sicko is far from the picture of perfect health, it reveals a decidedly more mature and persuasive Michael Moore, a left-wing populist whose self-righteousness can stick in the craw of even his admirers. He is less bombastic this time around, and he wisely limits his onscreen time.
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5.0 Washington Post | Stephen Hunter

Ladies and gentlemen, I think we can agree on two things: The American health-care system is busted and Michael Moore is not the guy to fix it.
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