Chasing Ice 2012

Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle: The movie might have given us a bit less of Balog and a bit more of the startling sequences he produced. Read more

Neil Genzlinger, New York Times: As watchable as it is important. Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: The photography is often beautiful (the blue glaciers sparkle in the sun like massive sapphires), but it's disturbing - and sure to convince any climate-change doubters. Read more

Alison Willmore, 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. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: As much as one may intellectually believe in climate change, to see it actually happening has the power to stun a viewer into wordlessness. Read more

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: You couldn't ask for a more dramatic moment than the climactic sequence. Read more

Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: The rapid disappearance of ice mountains, filmed over a period of years, is compressed through time-lapse technology into minutes and seconds. The speeded-up effect is harrowing and also, disturbingly, eerily beautiful. Read more

Tom Long, Detroit News: The most important documentary of the year. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: If you're looking for eye-popping evidence that the world's glaciers are melting, don't miss the small-scale but spectacular documentary, Chasing Ice. Read more

John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter: Doc about photographing glaciers makes a compelling environmental case without sacrificing beauty. Read more

Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: Though the filmmaker's point of view on the matter seems quite clear, Orlowski does smartly acknowledge counterarguments against climate change without dwelling on them. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Terribly, chillingly important. Read more

Mark Jenkins, NPR: What sustains the film are neither words nor music but spectacular images of places few people have ever seen. Read more

Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: You won't want to look away - not only because of the gorgeous images, but also because of the reality it presents. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The "green" teams looking into such energy sources as solar, wind and nuclear are often ridiculed. Watch "Chasing Ice" and see if you laugh. Read more

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Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: "Chasing Ice" is a grand adventure, a visual amazement and a powerful warning. Read more

Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: The last words, four and simple, rightly belong to Balog: "You can't deny it." No doubt - the iceman cometh. Read more

Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: Considering the gravity of the situation there is very little preaching in Chasing Ice. Facts about global warming are presented then backed up with staggering visuals. An audience is invited to accept it as proof, or not. Read more

Trevor Johnston, Time Out: Still an eco-sceptic? Clap your eyes on this lot. Awe-inspiring, terrifying, transcendently beautiful, and absolutely weighted with significance for the future of the planet. Read more

Justin Chang, Variety: The case for climate change is mounted in visually breathtaking yet conventional fashion in Chasing Ice. Read more

Chuck Wilson, Village Voice: Jeff Orlowski's beautiful yet sobering documentary about the world's rapidly melting ice caps. Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: "Chasing Ice" aims to accomplish, with pictures, what all the hot air that has been generated on the subject of global warming hasn't been able to do: make a difference. Read more