Avis Metacritic

With the global economic meltdown affecting just about everybody, the film is pertinent, hugely entertaining, and, above all, timely.

At its best, Capitalism: A Love Story is a searing outcry against the excesses of a cutthroat time. At its worst, it's dorm-room Marxism.

This is a typical Moore oeuvre: funny, often over the top and of dubious documentation, but with strongly made points that leave viewers much to ponder and debate after they walk out of the theater.

Too bad its wide net ultimately results in diminishing returns.

Like most of his movies, Capitalism is a tragedy disguised as a comedy; it’s also an entertainment.

Moore's scattershot is a lot more interesting than some filmmakers' focus, and many of those individual parts are classic.

Whether Capitalism matches "Fahrenheit 9/11" or underperforms like "Sicko" will depend on how much workers of the world are ready to unite behind the message.

Delivers Moore’s usual grab bag of ironic kitsch, gotcha clips and infotainment-journalism.

Scattershot, lazy slice of agitprop, which recycles Moore's usual slice-and-dice job on corporations, while bobbing a curtsey to the current crisis.

This is a love story, all right, but it has less to do with the flaws of capitalism than it does with Moore's unwavering fondness for the sound of his own voice, and for what he perceives as his own vast cleverness.