Into Eternity 2010

A.O. Scott, New York Times: While nothing said in his film undercuts this worry, the way the movie and the people in it express their concern gives it a feeling of sublimity unusual in most environmentalist documentaries. Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: Approaches the Onkalo problem with one part curiosity to two parts dubiousness, reflected in a hyper-aestheticized style that feels equally influenced by Errol Morris, Sigur Ros, and creepy science-fiction movies. Read more

Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: Directed by Danish filmmaker Michael Madsen with grace and deep curiosity, "Into Eternity" is better than timely. Read more

Tom Long, Detroit News: Into Eternity is a documentary that may look like a science fiction movie, but it ends up more of a horror film. Read more

V.A. Musetto, New York Post: Into Eternity provides few solutions regarding the estimated 200,000 to 300,000 tons of N-waste lying around the world, but it does alert us to potentially devastating consequences. Will we heed the warning? Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: More like a troubling dream, or outtakes from an abandoned David Lynch project, than a conventional documentary. Read more

David Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle: In a deceptively low-key manner, Danish filmmaker Michael Madsen has beautifully crafted one of the most provocative movies of the year. Read more

Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Madsen, whose symmetrical compositions and slo-mo shots of uniformed workers have a quality of Kubrickian sci-fi, frames the film as a message to the future. Read more

Tom Huddleston, Time Out: The moral and scientific implications of the project are deftly sketched and engaging. Read more

J. Hoberman, Village Voice: Defamiliarizing the snowy Nordic landscape, this delicately lurid documentary has a somber beauty. It is meant to boggle the mind and inspire awe-and it does. Read more