The Big One

(Miramax)

Like his controversial 1989 hit Roger & Me, The Big One features the disingenuously self-effacing filmmaker Michael Moore as the crusading blue-collar Everyman from Flint, Michigan, hunting down and mostly failing to collar the corporate honchos responsible for closing plants and putting regular guys like himself out of work. The film is less vitriolic than its predecessor, less overbearing, but funnier and more humane.