Michael Moore's New Target: 'Capitalism' Itself

Courtesy NPR Programs: Morning Edition  Thu, 09/24/2009 - 1:10am

Michael Moore is famous for skewering the excesses of American industry — and in his latest film, he goes looking (mostly on Wall Street) for the source of the trouble.

Critic Kenneth Turan says that while Capitalism certainly has spirit, the pop-culture polemicist may have taken on more than he could chew.

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