Critic Reviews

• Robert Koehler, Variety

  As a return volley to Moore's cinema, Celsius shares Moore's blatant agit-prop but none of his humor or entertainment sense.

• Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com

  Celsius 41.11 is so bad it's almost like performance art, or those cheap records from the '60s, where the Chipmunks sing the Beatles' greatest hits.

• Michael Atkinson, Village Voice

  The even faintly informed will see only a cut-rate vision of flabby white men defending their own bloodthirsty opportunism.

• Philip Kennicott, Washington Post

  There's really nothing more here than you can find watching dreadful political advertisements and dreadful political talk shows.

• Tom Keogh, Seattle Times

  It's not that Moore's film doesn't deserve an argument. But it does deserve a more thoughtful one.

• Lou Lumenick, New York Post

  There is little new in this mostly dry and humorless defense of President Bush, which adds a little heat but not a whole lot of light to the political debate.

• Rob Gonsalves, eFilmCritic.com

  Now that we've had the four more years of Bush that the movie was designed to encourage ... Celsius 41.11 seems pretty sad and naive.

• Frank Swietek, One Guy's Opinion

  A grim slice of ultra-conservative agitprop...probably the worst example of the activist documentary to appear this election season.

• Marc Savlov, Austin Chronicle

  Any way you look at it, November 2 simply cannot arrive fast enough.

• Linda Cook, Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

  A bland documentary if ever there was one.

• Duane Dudek, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

  It's about as emotional as a PowerPoint presentation.

• Luke Y. Thompson, Los Angeles CityBeat

  If Knoblock expected his film to change minds, as Fahrenheit 9-11 seems to have done, he really should have added more humor

• Ron Stringer, L.A. Weekly

  Chetwynd and company at least attempt to score their points honestly, avoiding the spurious or ad hominem attacks of those for whom many little lies somehow constitute fair play in November's battle against the Big Red One.

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