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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: If it gets people thinking about which light bulbs they buy and their current gas mileage and such, then it's good to have it in the world. It is, however, a panicky blur as documentaries go. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: The 11th Hour, directed and written by Leila Conners Petersen and Nadia Conners, mixes in enough hard science to make the Deepak Chopra New Age flummery less easy to snicker at. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: The filmmakers take pains not to foster fatalistic gloom, concentrating on some of the progressive solutions still available to us. Read more
John Hartl, Seattle Times: The shadowy photography of the interviewees lends an ominous tone to nearly every scene, but what they're saying is often pragmatic and helpful. Read more
Tasha Robinson, AV Club: The 11th Hour is slick and passionate, but neither persuasive nor helpful; it's a headache of a film directed like an Errol Morris project, but with half the substance. It's clearly preaching to the choir, but even they may find it off-key. Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: It's like sitting through a college lecture and knowing with gripping dread that you're going to be quizzed on all of this afterward. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: The movie says we have to get back to the garden before complacency and ignorance hasten our demise. This is a hard argument to make without sounding kooky, but the documentary is too dire to turn dippy, cheesy, or sentimental. Read more
Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times: It is unabashedly a documentary of talking heads, but it works. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: The movie needed to reflect its own lesson: Less would have been more. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: The film lacks both the personality and central figure (as well as the all-important sense of humor) that made last year's similar An Inconvenient Truth so watchable. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Alternately impassioned, despairing, edifying, and hectoring about all the ways humans are screwing up the earth in a death rattle of hubris. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: It benefits the most by providing good advice and an abundance of well-considered ideas from forward thinkers of all stripes and persuasions who refuse to give up hope. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Consistent with the film's occasionally hippy-dippy tone, DiCaprio speaks about human beings engaging in a willed 'evolution in consciousness,' which sounds a little too desperate to be comforting. Read more
Judith Lewis, L.A. Weekly: The 11th Hour is ultimately a triumph of redemptive ideas that DiCaprio -- God bless his celebrity -- may finally succeed in transporting from the environmental fringe to the mainstream moviegoing audience. Read more
Bruce Newman, San Jose Mercury News: No matter what time it is in the grand, cosmic scheme of things, The 11th Hour arrives about a day late and an eco-dollar short of An Inconvenient Truth Read more
John Anderson, Newsday: If you still need an argument about global warming, the documentary -- makes a good one. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: If you get through the first hour without slitting your throat, the cautiously optimistic last third offers some intriguing options. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: Unusually undisguised leftism. The scare montages are--I'm not making this up--very similar to one shown in last year's remake of The Omen. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: It's not a movie with a lot of answers, but The 11th Hour does push the debate further down the road. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: This movie, for all its noble intentions, is a bore. Rent An Inconvenient Truth instead. Even if you've already seen it. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: A haunting, elegiac history of how human beings have brought the planet to the edge of a precipice, and call upon an impressive array of thinkers to discuss how, and whether, we can avoid the abyss that waits below. Read more
Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle: An Inconvenient Truth was short on how to make life better. It rushed through a list of 'what to do next' offerings in the film's last few minutes. Here is where The 11th Hour shines. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: As a call to action, it's sincere but flawed, and as an inquiry into humankind's bafflingly self-destructive tendencies, it scarcely scratches the surface. Read more
Susan Walker, Toronto Star: If Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth was a warning, The 11th Hour is the red alert. Read more
Justin Chang, Variety: 11th Hour presents the viewer with reams of depressing data, loads of hand-wringing about the woeful state of humanity and, finally, some altogether fascinating ideas about how to go about solving the climate crisis. Read more
Mike D'Angelo, Village Voice: A cautionary eco-doc so earnest and moth-eaten it should properly be seen on filmstrip during fourth-period social studies. Read more
Nelson Pressley, Washington Post: The picture almost beats its theme to death -- the first hour is enough -- but the imaginative designers dreaming up a cleaner future end this Cassandra cry on an upbeat note. Read more