Considering the environmental glass houses we've constructed around us, one comes away from Earth Days wondering if it's not past time for some bricks to be slung, metaphorical or otherwise.
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10/30/09
Earth Days (2009)
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Reviews Counted:25
Fresh:20
Rotten:5
Average Rating:6.7/10
Consensus: This engaging and well-organized eco-doc maps the successes and failures of the American environmental movement, thanks to sharp interviews and remarkable archive footage.
Rated: Not Rated
Genre: Education/General Interest
Theatrical Release:Aug 14, 2009 Limited
Synopsis: It is now all the rage in the Age of Al Gore and Obama, but can you remember when everyone in America was not “Going Green”? Visually stunning, vastly entertaining and awe-inspiring, Earth Days [More]
Reviews for Earth Days
...mostly a celebration of gray eminences who are very satisfied with themselves.
10/30/09
Honoring the heroes of the environmental movement is clearly appropriate, but getting mired in nostalgia is a dirty shame.
10/29/09
Yes, the future still looks grim and whales are hunted here as they are in all such films, but Stone spends most of his time tracking something positive -- the birth of the environmental movement in the '60s and '70s.
10/23/09
Top CriticIf the aim of Earth Days is to make viewers refall in love with the beauty of this tiny planet, then it succeeds.
10/09/09
It's hard to watch this movie without feeling a little depressed and despondent about the future of mankind and its home.
10/08/09
Earth Days captures those years when through sheer relentlessness, activists broke through to the public and put the mounting disaster at its doorstep.
10/08/09
Top CriticA surprise of Earth Days is seeing Richard Nixon signing progressive eco-legislation and starting the Environmental Protection Agency.
10/07/09
A surprisingly calm documentary about the history of American ecological activism. But it's good calm, not dead calm.
10/02/09
A surprisingly engaging ecodocumentary about the history of the American environmental movement from the Depression era up to the present.
09/18/09
We may still have a long way to go but Earth Days applauds those who have helped bring us this far.
09/11/09
These people, including Whole Earth catalog editor Stewart Brand and 87-year-old former Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall, are smart and interesting folks who are worth listening to.
08/21/09
Top CriticA rich trove of news clips and interviews inform Robert Stone's fast-moving documentary about the movement to save the planet and the cultural forces that helped it along or held it back.
08/14/09
Top CriticCrusty eco-hippies spin random anecdotes about olden times in Earth Days, a turgid documentary on the environmental movement in the 1960s and '70s.
08/14/09
Top CriticAt once regretful and optimistic, frustrated and proud. Mr. Stone has shown us the way; now all we need is the will.
08/14/09
Top CriticA well-informed, well-constructed story boosted by the larger-than-life personalities of its subjects, all of whom played a unique role in raising awareness for the environment.
08/14/09
A fine historical survey of the environmental movement in America from the 1950s to the end of the 1980s.
08/13/09
Once [director] Stone drops the generalities and starts getting specific, Earth Days improves considerably.
08/13/09
Stone's brilliance as a filmmaker is that he serves the audience by serving his film's subject. Earth Days is a compelling and dramatic chronicle of the successes and failures of US environmental policies.
08/12/09
A rapturous and enlightening look at the history of the environmental movement in America.
08/12/09
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