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By Jurgen Fauth & Marcy Dermansky, About.com Guides to Independent Film since 1999

The Summer of the Documentary

Thursday June 17, 2004
Forget noisy, empty blockbusters like "The Day after Tomorrow" and "The Chronicles of Riddick:" socially conscious documentaries are doing extraordinarily well this summer. The hard-hitting overview of business wrongdoing "The Corporation," Morgan Spurlock's fast food expose "Super Size Me" and Jehane Noujaim's Al Jazeera doc "Control Room" are earning high per-screen grosses and critical acclaim. But the best is yet to come: Michael Moore's terrific anti-Bush polemic "Fahrenheit 9/11" opens on June 25. Look for our review in the next few days.

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