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Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: GOOD (cg) "...positioned as a response to 'An Inconvenient Truth,' doesn't deny that global warming exists.... posits that the situation isn't as dire as Al Gore and his peeps declare." (Read the full review...) 99 words, 11/12/10
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: GOOD "Director Ondi Timoner is more fearful of boring than confusing us.... By the second half, however, Ms. Timoner has found her footing, and the film really digs in.... many of Al Gore's meticulously graphed assertions are systematically -- and persuasively -- refuted." (Read the full review...) 555 words, 11/12/10 Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...ought to have spent more time detailing Lomborg's theories and less time using Al Gore and 'An Inconvenient Truth' as punching bags." (Read the full review...) 120 words, 11/12/10 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: GOOD "...a dose of hope and creativity after the gloom of 'An Inconvenient Truth.' " (Read the full review...) 749 words, 11/12/10 Kyle Smith, New York Post: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...carries a message likely to provoke, agitate and even infuriate. The message? The world is not going to end." (Read the full review...) 673 words, 11/12/10 Bill Stamets, Chicago Sun-Times: VERY GOOD (cg) "...popularizes another cool calculator of hot topics." (Read the full review...) 296 words, 11/12/10 Nicolas Rapold, Village Voice/LA Weekly: WEAK "...displays a weakness for heavy-handed pivots, unexamined arguments, and wall-to-wall filler music." (Read the full review...) 306 words, 11/10/10 Peter Howell, Toronto Star: VERY GOOD (cg) "...challenges conventional wisdom and demands further debate, which is always a good thing." (Read the full review...) 576 words, 11/26/10 Jennie Punter, Toronto Globe & Mail: VERY GOOD (cg) "...an array of fascinating, intelligent scientists, economists and other academic types weigh in on various topics. Jam-packed but never disorienting... will definitely get your head spinning." (Read the full review...) 581 words, 11/26/10 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: WEAK (cg) "...the movie has to spend half its running time explaining that Lomborg isn't a climate-change denier by having him declare it over and over again, which isn't the most dynamic storytelling choice." (Read the full review...) 236 words, 11/25/10
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Now that we're all awake, ladies and gentlemen, and now that Mr. Gore has gotten our full attention, Bjorn Lomborg would like to send us back to school." (Read the full review...) 538 words, 11/12/10 Tirdad Derakhshani, Philadelphia Inquirer: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...the goal: to give us a rational time-out amid all this global doom and gloom.... a riposte to Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth'..." (Read the full review...) 398 words, 11/12/10 Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle/San Francisco Chronicle: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...counterintuitive chalk talk on global warming.... promoting more than just a different perspective on climate debate. He's promoting his book - and himself." (Read the full review...) 533 words, 11/12/10 Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: MODERATE (cg) "...an adoring 'What Me Worry?' spin on the science that suggests we get past being paralyzed into inaction by the scale and cost of the 'worst case scenario' that 'An Inconvenient Truth' hurled at us." (Read the full review...) 566 words, 11/12/10 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: MODERATE (cg) "It's soothing when a film suggests that there are neat, simple solutions to vastly complex problems. But it's probably wrong." (Read the full review...) 267 words, 11/12/10 Randy Cordova, Arizona Republic: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "The over-the-top manipulation tends to mar one's appreciation of the documentary and Lomborg's message. Lomborg may be a skeptical environmentalist, but this isn't a movie for skeptical filmgoers." (Read the full review...) 277 words, 11/12/10 Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Most of Bjorn Lomborg's lecture is devoted to debunking 'An Inconvenient Truth,' Davis Guggenheim's runny film of Al Gore and his famous global warming PowerPoint show. Assertion by assertion, Lomborg disputes Gore." (Read the full review...) 662 words, 11/12/10 John Hartl, Seattle Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Lomborg has called Gore 'an alarmist' who exaggerates the consequences of global warming. At the same time, he praises Gore for bringing up the subject. He sees himself as a corrective influence..." (Read the full review...) 307 words, 11/12/10 Steve Persall, St. Petersburg Times: VERY GOOD (cg) "...no more a game-changer than 'An Inconvenient Truth' was." (Read the full review...) 216 words, 11/18/10
Nicolas Rapold, Village Voice/LA Weekly: WEAK "...displays a weakness for heavy-handed pivots, unexamined arguments, and wall-to-wall filler music." (Read the full review...) 306 words, 11/10/10 Brett Michel, Boston Phoenix: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...interested in one-upping Oscar-winning documentarian Davis Guggenheim, as Lomborg disputes Al Gore's inconvenient truths, one power point at a time." (Read the full review...) 164 words, 11/18/10 Scott Tobias, AV Club: MODERATE (cg) "...fights propaganda with propaganda.... Here's a man who's doing to environmental science what the Atkins Diet did to weight loss, and Timoner isn't looking for anyone to call his conclusions into question? Nonsense." (Read the full review...) 373 words, 11/11/10 Nick Schager, Slant: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...cogently and persuasively lays out its obvious, and yet far-from-embraced, thesis: that the only real way to obliterate America's, and the developing world's, reliance on fossil fuels (and their resultant CO2 emissions) is to create cheaper, more effective alternatives." (Read the full review...) 477 words, 11/06/10 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: WEAK (cg) "...the movie has to spend half its running time explaining that Lomborg isn't a climate-change denier by having him declare it over and over again, which isn't the most dynamic storytelling choice." (Read the full review...) 236 words, 11/25/10
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: GOOD "Director Ondi Timoner is more fearful of boring than confusing us.... By the second half, however, Ms. Timoner has found her footing, and the film really digs in.... many of Al Gore's meticulously graphed assertions are systematically -- and persuasively -- refuted." (Read the full review...) 555 words, 11/12/10 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: GOOD "...a dose of hope and creativity after the gloom of 'An Inconvenient Truth.' " (Read the full review...) 749 words, 11/12/10 Andrew O'Hehir, Salon: GOOD "...a stimulating and nerdalicious ride, and I came out of it with tremendous admiration for Lomborg's high energy level, appetite for publicity and evidently sincere desire to solve every world problem in one lifetime." (Read the full review...) 1,059 words, 11/12/10
Rob Nelson, Daily Variety: MODERATE "Intermittently stimulating and only as provocative as Danish researcher Bjorn Lomborg himself, the film does question the comparative benefits of measured and alarmist rhetoric when it comes to climate-change debate..." (Read the full review...) 717 words, 09/12/10 Justin Lowe, Hollywood Reporter: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "Polemical in tone, wide-ranging in scope and persuasive to a degree... Despite some interesting ideas... conventional camerawork and unexceptional editing don't contribute much additional value to a package that's unlikely to alter Lomborg's outsider status." (Read the full review...) 560 words, 11/10/10 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: GOOD "...a dose of hope and creativity after the gloom of 'An Inconvenient Truth.' " (Read the full review...) 749 words, 11/12/10 Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: GOOD "Director Ondi Timoner is more fearful of boring than confusing us.... By the second half, however, Ms. Timoner has found her footing, and the film really digs in.... many of Al Gore's meticulously graphed assertions are systematically -- and persuasively -- refuted." (Read the full review...) 555 words, 11/12/10
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