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- 80Chicago ReaderAndrea GronvallChicago ReaderAndrea GronvallThanks to her fearless, charismatic star, Ondi Timoner has directed one of the more hopeful movies of the year.
- 80Los Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyLos Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyBy bringing in a diverse group of big thinkers to take part in a very animated, sometimes agitated, discussion, the filmmaker has succeeded in bringing what could have been a very dry mountain of data, theories and experimental research to vibrant life.
- 70MovielineMichelle OrangeMovielineMichelle OrangeTimoner attempts - with talking heads, travelogues, and a little alarmist flair of her own - to articulate Lomborg's central idea that not doing enough good might be the same as doing harm.
- 70NPRMark JenkinsNPRMark JenkinsTo devotees of Al Gore's prophecy of a soon-to-be-parboiled Earth, "Skeptical Environmentalist" author Bjorn Lomborg is the devil. So what does an ecologically incorrect demon look like? Like an aging Danish surfer dude, it turns out.
- 67Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAustin ChronicleMarc SavlovAnd while the blond, youthful, and entirely sane-seeming Lomborg was initially pilloried for his calm, rational views by the global environmental movement, his ideas and solutions arrive as a refreshing tonic in the face of global warming's more vocal fearmongers.
- 67Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumThe telegenic Lomborg is the on-camera "star" of the show, while his angry critics growl on cue.
- 63Boston GlobeWesley MorrisBoston GlobeWesley MorrisCool It arrives having been labeled the anti-"An Inconvenient Truth." It is. But not in the philistinistic way you'd expect.
- 60Arizona RepublicArizona RepublicThe movie is never boring, but there may be some information overload for laymen in the audience.
- 60Boxoffice MagazineTim CogshellBoxoffice MagazineTim CogshellCool It resonates, and gives one pause not just to consider the merits of the global warming question, but to consider the merits of all that we've decided to do about it, impending doom notwithstanding.
- 60New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierNew York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierWhile Lomborg is an engaging though sometimes smug subject, director Ondi Timoner allows a coterie of scientists to spend too much time puncturing Gore than propping up Lomborg - who comes off as charismatic and engaged but, ultimately, merely a contrarian.