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USA Today Staff [Not Credited]
Though entertaining, Spurlock's lighthearted approach doesn't work as well here.
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Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
Spurlock's intermittently entertaining travelogue ultimately reveals that people in disparate countries of different religions and wildly divergent ideologies are more alike than not.
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TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Could as easily be called "Spurlock: Cultural Learnings Of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of America."
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The Hollywood Reporter
Although he makes an amusing comic foil, Spurlock is ill-equipped to either evaluate or report on Middle East foreign policy. His methodology is disturbingly casual and conclusions woefully simplistic.
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The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Exasperating and goofy documentary.
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Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
A primer no one needed, Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden? should have been called "The Post-9/11 World for Dummies."
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New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
After a clever start, Spurlock turns self-serious, aiming to teach us something about our enemies and ourselves.
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Boston Globe Wesley Morris
I was not a fan of Albert Brooks's "Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World" (2005), but Brooks, at least, seemed willing to concede before it was over that his movie was a terrible idea. Spurlock seems opportunistically optimistic.
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San Francisco Chronicle Peter Hartlaub
A film so self-centered that even the director's most dedicated stalkers might find it a bit too narcissistic.
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Chicago Tribune
Morgan Spurlock is a living, breathing cautionary tale. Take a good, long look, kids: This is what happens when society validates really annoying people.
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