Winged Migration (Le Peuple Migrateur) Reviews
San Francisco Examiner
Perrin doesn't express any particular personal passion with this film other than 'birds are pretty.'
| Original Score: 2.5/4
F5 (Wichita, KS)
The material seems shapeless... no question was raised that might have held me... And maybe Born Free was a documentary, too.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Boxoffice Magazine
Repetitive and formless, and the sappy new-age music and portentous narration is grating.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
The point of this true-life adventure is not the dissemination of information but the instilling of a sense of awe in the viewer ...
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| Original Score: A-
Top Critic
A feat of diligence -- and not just on the part of its feathered subjects.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Common Sense Media
As pretty and light as a feather on the wind.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Arizona Daily Star
A stunning, if somewhat repetitive, flight.
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| Original Score: 3/4
[O]ne of the most astonishing pieces of work I've ever seen.
St. Paul Pioneer Press
The limited scope of Winged Migration is disappointing, at first, but it becomes the movie's strength, implying that what motivates the birds does not require explanation.
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| Original Score: 3/4
EricDSnider.com
Seeing the beauty of nature unfold on the big screen and having it wash over you the way this does is enough to make anyone become a birdlover.
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| Original Score: A-
ColeSmithey.com
The Oscar-nominated "Winged Migration" is a virtuosi technical achievement in documentary filmmaking due to its astonishingly intimate photography of the migrations of numerous species of birds across the earth's northern and southern hemispheres.
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| Original Score: B+
Spirituality and Practice
Winged Migration is a glorious celebration of birds in flight, conveying the beauty, the amazing feats of strength and the endurance of their long distance journeys. Here is one to stir your soul!
