Fahrenheit 11/9

"How does Michael Moore make a documentary in his classic style amid the current state of America? It seems like an obsolete format, given the staggering amount of news articles about the current tenant of the White House that come out daily along with the baffling, incriminating tweets he frequently posts himself. Alas, I was very pleasantly surprised at just how relevant and valuable this feature feels, but Moore makes a few large missteps that stop it from being a great film."

"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."

"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."

"Fahrenheit 11/9 consolidates that rage so well that even as it's only occasionally effective, I'm hesitant to write off the film entirely."

"But 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."

"Fahrenheit 11/9 is funny and mischievous in parts, but too little of it feels fresh or shocking."

"Few can match Moore's gift for agitprop mischief when he's in this mood, and things build to an apocalyptic crescendo, complete with warnings of authoritarianism, armed insurrection, and even nuclear war."

"This is timely and terrifying documentary film-making."

"It's entertaining and emotionally captivating, if never really surprising."

"There is much food for thought in the film, shot with the director's characteristic passion, flair, wicked sense of humour and willingness to push the envelope."

"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."