What's
most striking about Sicko is how composed, even
serene it is compared with Michael Moore's previous acts of
cinematic insurgency
Gene Seymour: Newsday
Overall, the net effect of "Sicko's" penetrating and
devastating inquiry into the way America takes care of its
ill and dying is to transfer the anger to the audience
rather than have Moore's own outrage spread all over his
film. Which makes this movie, by a considerable distance,
the writer-director's most effective provocation yet...more
Why
give Moore a free pass just because you support his
ideologies? In the end, the real loyalty we owe is to truth
Lisa Rose: Newark Star-Ledger
In "Sicko," Michael Moore's love letter to Canadian and
European health-care systems, we learn that in France, new
mothers get free nanny services as part of their universal
medical coverage...more
Release
Date: June 22, 2007 (NY; wide release: June 29)