polemicist

The pugnacious polemicist tells Steve Inskeep how he learned about a resurgence in Norwegian cinema, about an elaborate prank in the Czech Republic, about why he's not a big DVD fan — and about why he assumed the fetal position during a film about a Kazakh journalist.

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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.