NEW YORK (AFP) - US critics gave a warm welcome to Michael Moore's caustic documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11," praising the movie's scathing humour while voicing some reservations over the director's methods.
"Informative, provocative, frightening, compelling, funny, manipulative and, most of all, entertaining," read USA Today's gushing review of Moore's polemic against the war in Iraq (news - web sites) and the administration of President George W. Bush (news - web sites).
"Fahrenheit 9/11 is the year's must-see film," the national daily said, while questioning whether the unabashed bias of the documentary would actually change minds in an already polarised US electorate.
While acknowledging that Moore's latest piece of agitprop, which won the Palme D'Or at this year's Cannes film festival (news - web sites), could be "nitpicked and second guessed," The Los Angeles Times labelled the film "a landmark in American filmmaking (that) demands to be seen."
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