Chasing Ice Reviews
Flix Capacitor
On one hand, it's humbling to watch as a glacier the size of five football fields slumps into the ocean like a defeated whale, while on the other it's eye-opening to think about how cataclysmic the effects could be in years to come.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Seven Days
As a documentary, it offers most of its likely viewers grim confirmation of what they already know, rather than the thrill of discovery.
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| Original Score: 7/10
sbs.com.au
Less a didactic 'message-movie' than a study of one man's steely determination, the debut helmer directs with a sure hand and no-frills aesthetic.
Common Sense Media
Beautiful, affecting documentary about glacier retreat.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Austin Chronicle
If seeing equals believing, then this film's documentation ought to sway the world. But daredevil heroes and sexy screen goddesses probably help the medicine go down.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Austin American-Statesman
While visually and emotionally stunning, "Chasing Ice" raises almost as many questions as it answers.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Birmingham Mail
Chasing Ice will open your eyes to a world you've never seen before and it will make you think. But whether any of us can change anything is a different matter altogether.
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| Original Score: 4/5
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Global Warming? "Seeing is believing."
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| Original Score: 3/4
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
While skeptics continue to doubt global warming is a man-made phenomenon - Rush Limbaugh called warnings about it "garbage science" - "Chasing Ice" leaves little doubt it is occurring.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
The List
It's an absorbing and vital watch.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Flick Filosopher
A few scientists pop their heads in here, a few charts are deployed, but Chasing Ice is powered primarily by the imagery, stark, irrefutable evidence that the planet is warming, not in one or two isolated places but everywhere.
Capital Times (Madison, WI)
"Chasing Ice" is a beautiful film to watch, especially on the big screen. But the documentary's visual pleasures come with a heavy dose of guilt.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Radio Times
It's sobering stuff but the film's impact is somewhat diminished by Orlowski's reverential profile of Balog, who continues to crusade despite the toll his endeavours have taken on his body.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Daily Express
The documentary feels a little slight but the images speak for themselves ...
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| Original Score: 3/5
Guardian [UK]
If any film can convert the climate-change sceptics, Chasing Ice would be it: here, seeing really is believing.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Groucho Reviews
While more detailed scientific analysis and greater discussion of impacts would have been welcome, the film's visual rhetoric is solid.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
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