Bowling for Columbine

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Bowling for Columbine

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2002,

2h 0m,

Documentary

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Political documentary filmmaker Michael Moore explores the circumstances that lead to the 1999 Columbine High School massacre and, more broadly, the proliferation of guns and the high homicide rate in America. In his trademark provocative fashion, Moore accosts Kmart corporate employees and pleads with them to stop selling bullets, investigates why Canada doesn't have the same excessive rate of gun violence and questions actor Charlton Heston on his support of the National Rifle Association.

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Critics Consensus

Though it may not always convince, Bowling for Columbine asks important questions and provokes thought.

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Olivia B. Waxman

TIME Magazine

Sep 19, 2024

The filmmaker Michael Moore seeks to explain how the massacre could occur, and why gun deaths are so much higher in the U.S. than in other countries, he’s not afraid to confront high-profile figures.

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Joshua Rothkopf

In These Times

Mar 16, 2020

Readers of these pages need no introduction to Michael Moore, nor will they require any acrobatics on my part to go see Bowling for Columbine, which is (brace yourselves) pretty terrific.

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Nell Minow

Common Sense Media

Dec 22, 2010

4/5

Must-see gun violence documentary is brutal.

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Andrew Collins

Radio Times

Jun 7, 2024

5/5

Bowling for Columbine urges you to think about what patriotism really means.

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Savina Petkova

A Good Movie To Watch

Oct 29, 2023

8.6/10

No one vivisects the shortcomings of America better than Michael Moore.

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

Mar 14, 2022

2.5/4

The film's continued relevance is impossible to ignore.

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Albus S

Feb 16, 2019

Michael Moore didn't just questions the violently abusive usage of guns, his emotionally-stirred investigation went straight into the buried darkness at the questionable core of violence. The delivered results being crafted into a somewhat transitional form towards the subject with accessible perspectives for impossible, helpless truths proves to not only be timelessly relevant - as validation for how thorough a documentary has touched and revealed - towards the generations-long ongoing White Stupidity, it is overwhelmingly sad enough to give you a headache as response to the graphically doomed atmosphere that is not being helped due to the apparently growing apathy. Excellent points were brought up bluntly upfront accompanied with rare humor to at least lighten the heaviness while remained arrogantly ignored by the heartless or/and simply unsolved by those trying to figure out an alternative, compromising solution to impossibly prevent it further. (B)

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Abraham S

Dec 2, 2018

Despite occasionally being a work of demagoguery, the film raised important questions about gun control, gun violence, and gun culture in the United States in 2002, and those questions are still very relevant today, as is this film.

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Draco G

Nov 6, 2018

This film was solid.

Leia S

Nov 3, 2018

Required educational viewing for deranged, troglodytic gun nuts who yearn to put instruments of murder - devised, in fact, singularly for the purpose of murder - in the hands of all Americans

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Leia R

Oct 19, 2018

you can only dislike this documentary for political (and wrong) reasons.

Albus R

Oct 16, 2018

Ridiculously outlandish.

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Synopsis

Political documentary filmmaker Michael Moore explores the circumstances that lead to the 1999 Columbine High School massacre and, more broadly, the proliferation of guns and the high homicide rate in America. In his trademark provocative fashion, Moore accosts Kmart corporate employees and pleads with them to stop selling bullets, investigates why Canada doesn't have the same excessive rate of gun violence and questions actor Charlton Heston on his support of the National Rifle Association.

Director: Michael Moore
Producer: Charles Bishop, Jim Czarnecki, Michael Donovan, Kathleen Glynn, Michael Moore
Screenwriter: Michael Moore
Distributor: United Artists
Production Co: Dog Eat Dog Films, Salter Street Films International, United Broadcasting Inc.
Rating: R (Some Violent Images|Language)
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 11, 2002, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 17, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $21.2M
Runtime: 2h 0m
Sound Mix: Surround, Dolby Stereo

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