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A searing indictment of big business and greed, Who Killed The Electric Car? is a well-tuned doc that simultaneously entertains and enrages.
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Owen Gleiberman
Another few of these squandered opportunities for art-house muckraking and we'll need someone to ask who killed the left-wing documentary. August 27, 2009 | Full Review…
Another few of these squandered opportunities for art-house muckraking and we'll need someone to ask who killed the left-wing documentary.
Rob Nelson
Chris Paine's documentary about General Motors' development and withdrawal of the innovative, environment-friendly EV1 automobile is bound to reverberate with anyone who's fallen in love with a product only to see it irrevocably yanked from the market. March 21, 2008 | Full Review…
Chris Paine's documentary about General Motors' development and withdrawal of the innovative, environment-friendly EV1 automobile is bound to reverberate with anyone who's fallen in love with a product only to see it irrevocably yanked from the market.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
This fascinating feature-length documentary tells the shameful story of how fast, economical electric cars became a hit in California in the 1990s, then vanished almost overnight. May 24, 2007 | Full Review…
This fascinating feature-length documentary tells the shameful story of how fast, economical electric cars became a hit in California in the 1990s, then vanished almost overnight.
Brad Newsome
It's liable to get people hopping mad, whether or not they buy Paine's overarching conspiracy theory. October 7, 2006
It's liable to get people hopping mad, whether or not they buy Paine's overarching conspiracy theory.
Andrew O'Hehir
... an entertaining but sometimes disingenuous documentary ... August 13, 2006 | Rating: 3/5
... an entertaining but sometimes disingenuous documentary ...
Roger Moore
Opening with a tongue-in-cheek funeral for the electric car, [Chris] Paine gives us lessons in the environment, history, politics, finance, and let's face it - stupidity, as we follow the demise of the EV-1. November 6, 2019 | Full Review…
Opening with a tongue-in-cheek funeral for the electric car, [Chris] Paine gives us lessons in the environment, history, politics, finance, and let's face it - stupidity, as we follow the demise of the EV-1.
Debbie Lynn Elias
The film shows how politicians on both sides of the isle conspired with oil companies and car manufacturers to rob our ecology of one of its most promising assets. April 23, 2009 | Rating: A- | Full Review…
The film shows how politicians on both sides of the isle conspired with oil companies and car manufacturers to rob our ecology of one of its most promising assets.
Cole Smithey
Quote not available. August 7, 2008 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Jonathan Kiefer
Transcends its own awful construction by being a documentary, further supporting the idea that docs needn't be well made to be worthwhile. September 17, 2007 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…
Transcends its own awful construction by being a documentary, further supporting the idea that docs needn't be well made to be worthwhile.
Christopher Campbell
Given the shortsighted shenanigans engaged in by these corporate-oriented politicians and greedy captains of industry, is it any wonder that we'd end up mired in the Middle East to ensure the flow of oil? Who killed the electric car? The usual suspects. June 1, 2007 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
Given the shortsighted shenanigans engaged in by these corporate-oriented politicians and greedy captains of industry, is it any wonder that we'd end up mired in the Middle East to ensure the flow of oil? Who killed the electric car? The usual suspects.
Kam Williams
It goes far beyond electric cars to illustrate how big business controls government actions and policies at all levels with damaging results. March 30, 2007 | Rating: B | Full Review…
It goes far beyond electric cars to illustrate how big business controls government actions and policies at all levels with damaging results.
Robert Roten
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