AP movie critic loses me. Watch her buttering her toast

[Bozita]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/06/21/entertainment/e115152D08.DTL

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But it is quintessential Moore: expertly crafted, eminently entertaining, one-sided and overly simplistic.

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Another woman, who happened to work at a hospital, discusses how her husband died because he was denied a bone-marrow transplant.
(The brother of the guy was tested to be a perfect match. Why doesn't the reviewer mention this?)


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Then, in the second half of "Sicko," Moore visits Britain, France and — in a climactic bit of literal showboating — Cuba, all countries where citizens enjoy the benefits of government-run medical care.

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What weakens "Sicko" is that Moore never offers a single dissenting voice or even suggests in a cursory way that he tried to reach any political leaders or insurance executives for a response. We're told that top administrators receive bonuses for denying care, for example — that the less coverage they provide, the fewer people they help, the more money they save their companies — but there's no one to explain or defend this practice. Nor does Moore bother to mention how much it might cost to institute universal health care in the United States.
(Reviewer is lamenting the MSM's cancellation of "Crossfire." She's looking for an argument praising this astrofucking?)

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Instead he tickles the funny bone and tugs at the heart — with surgical precision. "Sicko," a Lionsgate and Weinstein Co. release, is rated PG-13 for brief strong language. Running time: 123 minutes. Three stars out of four.
(Her reluctance to cough up the fourth star may be influenced by her desire to keep her job.)