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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Werner Herzog is a magnet for obsessives, and his lovely new film, Encounters at the End of the World, takes you places an ordinary filmmaker might've gone to yet missed completely. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: Midway through, an eerier theme creeps in, all the more powerful for Herzog's lack of insistence. By the 'end of the world' he means the end of the world. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: The sky is relentlessly blue, the sun bright even in the thick of night. In this odd and unforgettable place, Herzog has made his own poetry. Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: The film plays a little like an episode of Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations, except with scientists instead of cooks, though the low-stakes travelogue format allows for plenty of surprises and fun along the way. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Read more
Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: The images captured by Herzog and cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger are dazzling all on their own, finding the disorienting psychedelia that is nature at its weirdest. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: A supremely cranky and lyrical feat. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: [Herzog] wants us to see how these quirky researchers, in their lust to explore, are acting out a drive as primitive as nature: the need to break away from the world in order to find it. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Who better than Herzog to share with us the off-beat Encounters at the End of the World. Read more
Amy Nicholson, I.E. Weekly: This mystical, cynical, hypocritical elegy is his return to the deep after his somnolent The Wild Blue Yonder, and like it, plunges into the unique territory of Herzog's mind Read more
Rafer Guzman, Newsday: Granted, this documentary (surely the weirdest ever funded by the Discovery Channel) could have used more editing. But it's the notebook of a genius, and well worth cracking open. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: He [Herzog] is cinema's poet of the empty spaces. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: A hypnotically digressive travelogue. Read more
V.A. Musetto, New York Post: Encounters may lack the power of, say, the Herzog doc Grizzly Man, because it has no bigger-than-life character at its nexus, but it does confirm the filmmaker as an iconoclastic master. Read more
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Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: A contrarian spiritual journey as provocative as it is hypnotic, Herzog's Encounters at the End of the World literally treks to planet's end. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: A poem of oddness and beauty. Herzog is like no other filmmaker, and to return to him is to be welcomed into a world vastly larger and more peculiar than the one around us. The underwater photography alone would make a film, but there is so much more. Read more
Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle: Encounters at the End of the World is an enjoyable example of this extraordinary director's documentary work, and accessible enough to make it a good introduction to his singular vision. Read more
Dana Stevens, Slate: Herzog the crank is a flimsy cover for Herzog the wonderstruck little boy, marveling at everything from the viscosity of seal milk (it pours like wax) to the spiderlike crab creatures that skitter along the ocean floor beneath the Ross Sea. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: [Herzog is] a filmmaker ideally suited to recognize and celebrate...deep irony. Read more
Philip Marchand, Toronto Star: In his latest documentary, Encounters at the End of the World, Herzog -- who warns the viewer at the outset not to expect any 'fluffy penguins' -- deals with the men and women who perform scientific research in Antarctica. Read more
J. Hoberman, Village Voice: Perhaps because Herzog is approaching old-master status, Encounters at the End of the World skews toward the observational. Read more