Critic Reviews

• Loren King, Boston Globe

  Comprehensively tackles a sprawling subject and keeps things loose and lively.

• Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune

  Kitchell plods through this worthy material.

• Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle

  It's a decent overview of the subject, but the film's presentation is unexceptional, and it never hints that there is reasoned opposition to the views it advocates.

• Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times

  A worthy reminder of how much has been done to help heal our planet's ecological woes as well as how much remains to be achieved.

• Neil Genzlinger, New York Times

  About as sleepy as a documentary can be.

• Zachary Wigon, Village Voice

  There's no consistent narrative thread to carry the film from start to finish, and A Fierce Green Fire fails to open any singular intellectual or psychological point of investigation.

• Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid

  If the point of A Fierce Green Fire is to dissipate conflict and join all viewers together under one big cause, then it finally succeeds.

• Chris Hewitt (St. Paul), St. Paul Pioneer Press

  There's certainly plenty of material there, but the movie mostly tells us about them rather than showing us.

• Brent Simon, Shockya.com

  Essential viewing for those with a social conscience... showcases a rare and cogent macro-portrait skill unmatched in the arena of this topic since An Inconvenient Truth.

• Kelly Vance, East Bay Express

  Maybe the best environmental documentary.

• Martin Dunphy, Georgia Straight

  It is expertly edited and features an effective mix of archival footage, stills, and primary-source interviews.

• Louis Proyect, rec.arts.movies.reviews

  Funny to see the rotten reviews of this film as if it were supposed to be entertaining as a romantic comedy. We are in deep shit, brothers and sisters, and this movie gives you and idea of how good people are trying to pull us out of it.

• MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher

  [A] clear-eyed and much-needed overview of the modern history of people fighting for nature without even realizing, way back when, that they were also fighting for human beings as an inextricable part of nature...

• Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice

  A lucid and prophetic documentary that will rekindle your passion for making your small contribution to saving the planet.

• Drew Hunt, Slant Magazine

  The firector avoids all manner of stylistics, opting instead for the formulaic documentary trifecta of first-person interviews, archival material, and news footage.

• Christopher Campbell, Movies.com

  Positively inspiring.

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