How To Review Michael Moore

How should critics approach the new wave of decidedly skewed “documentary” films in an age of political polarization and intolerance? Many readers complain that such films are nothing but propaganda, and they’re not exactly wrong, but should reviewers be expected to chase down the truth of every supposed fact in every nonfiction film? And can such pictures really be reviewed simply as movies, or must they be separately graded as political documents. It’s a tricky issue…