RollingStone.com: Fahrenheit 9/11 Review

RollingStone.com: "Rumor has it that Michael Moore needs to get his Bush-bashing documentary out pronto (with the DVD following close behind) because his film will pass its sell-by date on Election Day. That would reduce the brilliant battering ram that is Fahrenheit 9/11 to propaganda with no resonance as cinema, history, humanism or entertainment. Nuts to that. Getting Bush out is just part of Moore's agenda. Political hypocrisy, across all party lines, is on trial in this broadside from the director of Roger and Me and Bowling for Columbine.

Did I mention that Fahrenheit 9/11 is ferociously, cathartically funny? Moore isn't above a cheap laugh at the expense of a pro-war Britney Spears, John Ashcroft warbling a patriotic ditty or Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz vainly prepping for a TV interview.

Images of the dead and wounded, and of U.S. soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners, aren't new. But Moore has marshaled what's on the record and off into a stinging indictment of where we're going. In a multiplex filled with Hollywood cotton candy, we need him more than ever.

PETER TRAVERS
RollingStone.com