Chasing Ice Reviews
Little White Lies
Is this about the hazards of global warming or the awesomeness of James Balog? Not entirely sure...
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| Original Score: 2/5
Top CriticThe movie might have given us a bit less of Balog and a bit more of the startling sequences he produced.
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| Original Score: 2/4
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
Slant Magazine
If you need it, the doc offers a devastating, and often beautifully shot, reality check.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
HeyUGuys
Balog has created time-lapse images of the receding glaciers, providing a beautiful but terrifying example of the effects of climate change.
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| Original Score: 4/5
ViewLondon
Utterly engaging in its demonstration of the planet's shocking climate change and is thoroughly absorbing to watch.
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| Original Score: 4/5
The Skinny
Chasing Ice is a uniquely visual adventure with a chilling message warmed by Balog's humanity.
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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
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Pictures, of course, say more than a thousand flowcharts or Al Gore's PowerPoint presentations. The images here are as glorious as those in any nature documentary ever made.
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| Original Score: B+
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
The List
It's an absorbing and vital watch.
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| Original Score: 4/5
The "green" teams looking into such energy sources as solar, wind and nuclear are often ridiculed. Watch "Chasing Ice" and see if you laugh.
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| Original Score: 3/4
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.
Movie Dearest
So long as filmmaker Jeff Orlowski keeps his focus on the findings from (James) Balog's Extreme Ice Survey (EIS)..."Chasing Ice" is gripping.
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| Original Score: B+
Film-Forward.com
Glaciers melt alarmingly fast in exciting story of obsessed pied piper with a camera traveling by boat, copter, and dogsled into the Arctic to download astonishing footage.
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| Original Score: 8/10
Common Sense Media
Beautiful, affecting documentary about glacier retreat.
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| Original Score: 5/5
AV Club
Provides a memorable bookend to accompanying shots of storms, fires, and floods from the last few years, ones that resonate urgently with the recent Hurricane Sandy damage still in the news.
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| Original Score: B-
