@LATE_SHOW_LURKER2026-01-16 13:00 UTC
Bowling for Columbine is two hours of talking heads agreeing with themselves on a moving B-roll.
“The devil tomato walked out.”
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2002 · Documentary / Drama
Bowling for Columbine
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Masterfully crafted. Un-roastable.
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An absolute cinematic disaster.
This is not a film about gun control. It is a film about the fearful heart and soul of the United States, and the 280 million Americans lucky enough to have the right to a constitutionally protected Uzi. From a look at the Columbine High School security camera tapes to the home of Oscar-winning NRA President Charlton Heston, from a young man who makes homemade napalm with The Anarchist's Cookbook to the murder of a six-year-old girl by another six-year-old. Bowling for Columbine is a journey through the US, through our past, hoping to discover why our pursuit of happiness is so riddled with violence.
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2002
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Documentary / Drama
PLOT SUMMARY
This is not a film about gun control. It is a film about the fearful heart and soul of the United States, and the 280 million Americans lucky enough to have the right to a constitutionally protected Uzi. From a look at the Columbine High School security camera tapes to the home of Oscar-winning NRA President Charlton Heston, from a young man who makes homemade napalm with The Anarchist's Cookbook to the murder of a six-year-old girl by another six-year-old. Bowling for Columbine is a journey through the US, through our past, hoping to discover why our pursuit of happiness is so riddled with violence.
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@TRAILER_TROLL2026-01-23 08:00 UTC
Watched Bowling for Columbine so you don't have to. You're welcome.
@AISLE_GHOUL2026-01-11 12:00 UTC
Even the popcorn looked bored during Bowling for Columbine.
@POPCORN_CRITIC2026-01-20 08:00 UTC
Bowling for Columbine: proof the studio reads its own marketing too literally.
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r/criticalkino · u/ThirdActTrouble🔥 3.5k points
Unpopular opinion: Bowling for Columbine is the most overrated film of the decade
Director clearly thought Bowling for Columbine was deeper than it is. There's a difference between ambiguous and unfinished, and this leans hard into the second.
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r/criticalkino · u/ThirdActTrouble🔥 1.1k points
The cinematography in Bowling for Columbine is doing all the heavy lifting and it shows
Look, I wanted to love Bowling for Columbine. The trailer had me hyped. But sitting through the second hour felt like a homework assignment. The dialogue is exposition stacked on exposition and the score keeps telling me how to feel.
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r/criticalkino · u/MidnightMatinee🔥 4.4k points
Hot Take: Bowling for Columbine's third act ruined what could have been a masterpiece
Just got out of Bowling for Columbine and I'm convinced critics are being paid in residuals. Two genuinely good scenes do not make a film. Convince me otherwise.
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r/criticalkino · u/JumpCutJunkie🔥 2.9k points
Why does no one talk about how mid the writing in Bowling for Columbine actually is?
Honestly, Bowling for Columbine would be a tight 95-minute movie. Instead we got a bloated runtime padded with B-roll and lingering shots that add nothing.
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