Cool It (2010)

Critic Reviews

• Jennie Punter, Globe and Mail

  Jam-packed but never disorienting, Cool It will definitely get your head spinning.

• Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times

  Blond, boyish and with an irrepressible faith in human adaptability, Mr. Lomborg is the anti-Gore.

• Randy Cordova, Arizona Republic

  It can be a little hard to digest so many ideas, especially in such rapid succession. The movie is never boring, but there may be some information overload for laymen in the audience.

• Kyle Smith, New York Post

  It's been five years since Gore warned us that we only have 10 years to fix global warming -- hey, Al, my apartment is near the Hudson River. Wanna bet it's still above water in 2015?

• Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post

  Some of it sounds, quite frankly, nuts. And a few of Lomborg's enemies have said as much. But throwing tons of money at the problem with little result? That also sounds kind of crazy.

• Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times

  By bringing in a diverse group of big thinkers to take part in a very animated, sometimes agitated, discussion, the filmmaker has succeeded in bringing what could have been a very dry mountain of data, theories and experimental research to vibrant life.

• Jay Antani, Cinema Writer

  That this documentary is solution-oriented rather than fear-oriented as so many recent ones...have been is itself a reason for touting it.

• Brent Simon, Shared Darkness

  Dawdling, and hopelessly muddled. Plus it ignores the basic reality that political calculations of those who peddle doom-and-gloom enviro-scenarios stems in part from fact they're dealing with people who decry all science.

• Jeffrey M. Anderson, Common Sense Media

  Controversial, but hopeful global warming documentary.

• Matt Kelemen, Las Vegas CityLife

  ... a slick argument that is basically a subterfuge intended to promote a free-market absolutist approach to solving the global warming problem.

• John Beifuss, Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

  Fascinating, but no more cinematic than an episode of 'Nova.'

• Bruce Kirkland, Jam! Movies

  No matter what your environmental politics are, the American-made documentary film Cool It leaves the viewer troubled, yet hungry for more information and debate.

• Tim Cogshell, Boxoffice Magazine

  Cool It resonates, and gives one pause not just to consider the merits of the global warming question, but to consider the merits of all that we've decided to do about it, impending doom notwithstanding.

• Chris Foran, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

  Unfortunately, "Cool It," even with its better ideas, too often feels like just more talking.

• Jim Lane, Sacramento News & Review

  [Bjorn] Lomborg is an affable and persuasive advocate ...

• Josh Bell, Las Vegas Weekly

  It's merely fighting propaganda with more propaganda.

• Brett Michel, Boston Phoenix

  Lomborg might not interact with his detractors, but at least he finds time for monthly visits to his Alzheimer's-stricken mom.

• Robin Clifford, Reeling Reviews

  ...more about Bjorn Lomborg than it is about the perils our world faces, now and into the future. I would have preferred more of the latter and far less of the former.

• Frank Swietek, One Guy's Opinion

  Succeeds in presenting Lomborg's arguments in a cogent, persuasive way...trying to start a civil conversation on climate change that's based on reason rather than fear.

• Marshall Fine, Hollywood & Fine

  Lomborg could be a prophet whose conclusions may be correct but his message is ripe for distortion and corruption, even within the film itself.

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