Critic Reviews

• Desson Thomson, Washington Post

  If the tone is occasionally off-putting, the message -- at least, the facts about the fish -- is harder to shrug off.

• Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune

  With commendable clarity, it lays out the data.

• Wesley Morris, Boston Globe

  This movie wants to cover every base without thinking very deeply about them. So while a lot of ground is covered in 80 brisk minutes, the information presented is only abstractly useful.

• Jason Anderson, Toronto Star

  It's hard not to feel that the vital information in The End of the Line may have been more effectively relayed by Clover's original book or by a movie whose methods were less pedantic and pedestrian.

• Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail

  Another day, another film about environmental collapse.

• Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

  The End of the Line documents what threatens to become an irreversible decline in aquatic populations within 40 years.

• Narelle Towie, Sunday Times (Australia)

  This is a documentary that will change the way you think about seafood and give you the power of knowledge to make a change.

• Jason Di Rosso, MovieTime, ABC Radio National

  As the final credits roll you feel like you've been on an emotional rollercoaster -- the same as you might if you'd just watched a moderately successful Hollywood disaster movie.

• Simon Foster, sbs.com.au

  Revelations about the tonnes of wasted sealife caught and discarded annually and the destructive effects of practices such as bottom-trawling, are head-spinning in their immensity.

• Margaret Pomeranz, At the Movies (Australia)

  There are an irritating number of fish and ocean montages with plaintive music which makes the film longer than it need be, but there's no denying the impact of its content.

• Annette Basile, FILMINK (Australia)

  It's compelling viewing, and outlines the problem -- and the solution -- in minute detail.

• Leigh Paatsch, Courier Mail (Australia)

  Forget 2012. 2012. According to The End of the Line, the year right-minded folk should be dreading is 2048.

• Tricia Olszewski, Washington City Paper

  Informative and alarming, if a little dry in its singular message and barrage of statistics.

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

  A gorgeously filmed cautionary tale about how industrial fishing is depriving little guys of their livelihood and depleting the once-vast supply.

• Liz Braun, Jam! Movies

  Plenty of fish in the sea? Time to learn a new adage.

• Andrew Schenker, Slant Magazine

  As if we didn't already have enough signs of the impending apocalypse with which to contend.

• Laura Clifford, Reeling Reviews

  ..."Food, Inc." for fish.

• Matthew Nestel, Boxoffice Magazine

  The exercise feels mass-produced and makes you think some books shouldn't be adapted unless given a new and fervent second wind.

• Avi Offer, NYC Movie Guru

  An illuminating, provocative and important wake-up call for everyone young and old.

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