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bad and baffling from the get-go

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to big box office bucks all but guaranteed

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the most blithe exchanges gives the film its lingering tug

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hardly an objective documentary , but it 's great cinematic polemic ... love moore or loathe him , you 've got to admire ... the intensity with which he 's willing to express his convictions .
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