Persuasive and passionate. 'Fahrenheit 9/11' is both. It's also Michael Moore's best film.

Persuasive and passionate. 'Fahrenheit 9/11' is both. It's also Michael Moore's best film.: "Yet there are other things to consider: The movie's passion. Its serious purpose. Its tone. Its mix of words and images, and the way both linger in the mind. There's the way the movie fashions its arguments, and the cumulative effect the experience provides -- what you feel walking out, what you think about the next day. By all these measures, 'Fahrenheit 9/11' is Michael Moore's best film.
Certainly, it's a career landmark, the film that signals his transition from political entertainer to political thinker, from propagandist to idiosyncratic journalist, from colorful gadfly to patriot. If 'Bowling for Columbine' was a step, this is a leap, in which Moore vaults past Will Rogers into some territory all his own. In the 90-year history of the American feature film, there has never been a popular election-year documentary like this one. "


Mick LaSalle
Chronicle Movie Critic